This fascinating exhibition focuses on one of the National Gallery’s greatest treasures, Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, the first Netherlandish picture ever purchased by the Gallery, back in 1842.

Elizabeth Peyton’s Liam + Noel Gallagher, one of her most significant portraits of the Oasis brothers, sold on the low part ...

Michelangelo, da Vinci, Van Gogh and company were pretty brilliant at hiding secret messages in their paintings Finding secret messages in paintings There’s a reason why masterpiece works of art spark ...

The Arnolfini Portrait Jan van Eyck (1434) Oil on oak panel, 82 × 60 cm National Gallery, London The Musicians Caravaggio (1595) Oil on canvas, 92 x 118 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

The Arnolfini Portrait is as enigmatic as it is iconic. Painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, it spawns a lot of speculation – over half a millennium later, we are left with many unanswered questions.

After unveiling a plaque to mark the re-opening, Charles and Camilla looked at the gallery’s new restaurant before touring many of the works on show, including the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van ...

Van Eyck’s 1434 The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait took on the title as the world’s first masterpiece in oils, and the artist has been memorialized as the “father of oil painting.” ...

The Fighting Temeraire by Turner has beaten works by Van Gogh, Hogarth and David Hockney to be named the greatest painting in Britain in a public vote. Constable's The Hay Wain came second in the poll ...

‘Arnolfini Wedding Portrait' by Jan van Eyck One of the most beautiful paintings by van Eyck, ‘The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait’ is of a couple that looks happy and complete together.

Another famous painting by Eyck is ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’. The main character of this painting is said to be Giovanni Arnolfini, a wealthy merchant, and his wife in a domestic setting.

Some juicy details are hiding in plain sight! Detail of Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait (1434). Collection of the National Gallery, London.

Reflected and distorted in this sphere (shades of Jan van Eyck’s “ The Arnolfini Portrait ”) are a ceiling light, a window, empty shelves, a doorway and an examination chair with a red light ...