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Tate Britain (London)

Many of the modern works formerly kept here have been moved to the Tate Modern housed in a stunningly transformed power station at Bankside, further down the Thames river. The Tate Gallery, now called Tate Britain, focuses primarily on British art.

Recently expanded, Tate Britain shows the world's largest display of British art, ranging from Tudor times to the present day, in line with the original intention of the gallery's sponsor, sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate.

One of the most exquisite early works is a portrait of a bejeweled Elizabeth 1 (c.1575), by Nicholas Hilliard. The influence of the 17th-century Flemish artist Sir Anthony van Dyck on English painters can be seen in William Dobson's Endymion Poner (1642-5) and the works of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88).

Some fine examples of William Hogarth's sharply satirical pictures, which remain popular today, are usually on displa y The famed horse paintings of George Stubbs include Mares and Foals in a Landscape (1760).

Tate Britain holds a large number of paintings by the visionary poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827). His work was imbued with a mystical intensity, a typical example being Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils (c.1826). England's great 19th-century landscape artists, Constable and Turner, are also well represented.

John Constable's famous Flaiford Mill, painted in 1816-17, is one of his many depictions of the Essex countryside. The Clore Gallery, open since 1987, houses the works of J.M.W. Turner 0775-1851), who left his paIntings to the nation on condition that they were kept together. His watercolorA City on a River at Sunset (1832) is a highlight.

The Tate also holds many works by the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelites, including J.E. Millais' Ophelia (1851-2), as well as the works of several modern and contemporary artists, such as Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Wyndham Lewis, and David Hockney.

Open Daily
Closed : December 24-26
Address Southwark, Blackfriars, Waterloo
Phone 020-78878000
Web: www.tate.org.uk/modern/

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