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The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
The Courtauld Institute is a research-led, independent college of the University of London, offering world–renowned programmes in the history, conservation, curation and business of art.
New display, ‘The Barber in London: Highlights from a Remarkable Collection’, opens 23 May 2025. Including works by Bellini, Rubens, Gainsborough, Turner, Rossetti, Whistler, Degas and Monet. For further press...
...is Botticelli’s large-scale The Trinity With Saints, unveiled after a three-year conservation project. A room dedicated to The Courtauld’s celebrated collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens is also a...
...After the Truce’s expiry, Peter Paul Rubens became exceptionally active as a diplomatic envoy. He accepted major commissions from nations previously at war with Spain, including the Banqueting House ceiling...
The Montagne Sainte-Victoire, with its distinctive craggy, broken top, dominates the countryside surrounding Paul Cézanne’s hometown of Aix-en-Provence in southern France. For him, it embodied the rugged landscape and people...
Rembrandt’s first wife Saskia Uylenburgh (1612-1642) often modelled for him, appearing in the guise of goddess or queen, as well as humbler figures. However, in this intimate and seemingly spontaneous...
Rembrandt’s first wife Saskia Uylenburgh (1612-1642) often modelled for him, appearing in the guise of goddess or queen, as well as humbler figures. However, in this intimate and seemingly spontaneous...
To mark the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery on 22 June 2023, The Courtauld Gallery is taking part in the ‘Portrait Mode’ campaign and inviting everyone to explore portraits...
...Manet, Renoir and more. At 8pm, guests are then called downstairs to dine in our Rubens and Baroque Room, the Gallery’s premier private dining space and home to The Courtauld’s...
...his tenure as Surveyor of the Fabric at Westminster Abbey, for more sympathetic and historically accurate restoration; see G. Rubens, William Richard Lethaby (The Architectural Press, 1986), 233-43. 4 C....
...in which anthropological and rhetorical approaches to the attribution of life to art works were combined. Recent publications include ‘Grotesque Figuration in Rubens’s Designs for the Pompa Introïtus Ferdinandi’, in:...
...the Rubens and Baroque Room and is also perfect for larger and more complex receptions. This floor of the gallery is a decadent entertaining space that is steeped in history,...
The Courtauld is home to one of the most significant collections of works on paper in the UK, with approximately 7,000 drawings and watercolours, and 26,000 prints ranging from the...
