Culture: National Gallery in London Opens Van Eyck Portraits on November 21: Nine Portraits Together for the First Time in Six Centuries
The National Gallery in London will open the exhibition Van Eyck: The Portraits on November 21, running through April 11, 2027, in the ground-floor galleries. It is a ticketed exhibition with timed entry; members enter free, and the permanent collection galleries are always free.
For the first time in history, all nine of Jan van Eyck's known portraits in oil have been brought together from across Europe, around half of his surviving autograph works. The gallery describes it as the first and only time they can be assembled. The sitters are mostly craftsmen, merchants and the artist's family rather than royalty. They include the newly restored Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) of 1433 shown with the 1439 portrait of his wife Margaret, and the gallery's own Arnolfini Portrait of 1434 shown for the first time with a portrait of the same sitter from Berlin.
The exhibition is curated by Emma Capron, the gallery's curator of early Netherlandish and German painting, with an accompanying catalogue by Capron and Nicholas Flory, the first monograph on Van Eyck's portraits. Ticket prices are on the gallery's booking page.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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