National Gallery 200: an intriguing Victorian painting of the gallery by a little-known artist

By William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History, University of Oxford

A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 is not currently on display. But it is online and it reveals some important questions about the nature of Nature Gallery itself as it celebrated its 200th year.

We know next to nothing about the artist. We know still less about the people he depicted. That man in the top hat and blue bow tie, the pair of serious women with their lace-trimmed…

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