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London – Westminster (Borough of) – Wallace Collection (Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School by Diego Velázquez)

This painting in the Wallace Collection has its own Wikipedia page, albeit shared with another version of the artwork. It’s

Canaletto, one of the few artists whose works are recognisable from the other side of a gallery, painted this artwork

This is perhaps the best-known artwork in the Wallace Collection, although I hadn’t even realised that it was there, so

There are some rather lovely colours in this artwork, painted by Horace Vernet (1789-1863) in 1843 and exhibited in the

This artwork is by Prosper Marilhat (that’s a wonderful first name incidentally) who lived between 1811 and 1847, painting this

This is my first visit to the Wallace Collection in London, a free museum that’s a short walk away from

These two Saints (NG4491 and NG4492) are in the collections of the National Gallery, donated in 1930 in honour of

This artwork (reference NG1113) is in the National Gallery in London and they’ve had it in their collections since 1882,

I wasn’t enormously thrilled about how the British Museum handled their visitor flow yesterday, with people clustered together. However, the

The gallery note that William Dobson (1611-1646) was “considered to be one of the best English artists of his time”