Explore the story of Florence Nightingale (born #OnThisDay in 1820), the Crimean War nurse who is often credited as the founder of modern nursing 👉 artuk.org/discover/stori…

🧑‍🎨 Fiorini Foundry and Arthur George Walker (1861–1939) and T. H. Wyatt 📷 Tracy Jenkins / Art UK

Pre Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born #OnThisDay 🎈

Read the story of Fanny Cornforth, the artist's model who is often left out of Rossetti's story 👉 ow.ly/cjCS50RAoBg

'The Blue Bower' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) 📸 The Barber Institute

Salvador Dali was born #OnThisDay 120 years ago 🎈

This #LearningResource provides an introduction to Surrealism 👉 ow.ly/uNNW50RBc6e 🦞

🧑‍🎨 Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Edward James (1907–1984) © Salvador Dali, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, DACS 2021. 📷 National Galleries of Scotland

Paul Nash is known for delving into the world of abstract landscape painting 🌳

The artist was born #OnThisDay , read more 👉 ow.ly/Pg8g50RAmAn

'Wood on the Downs' by Paul Nash (1889–1946) 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

Alan Kilpatrick takes the world of incense as his subject in his charcoal 'Incense Workers' series.

Read more in this new story by @thebigship_ 👉 ow.ly/8hJK50RBf3A

'Incense Workers Series – 1' by Alan Kilpatrick (b.1963) © the artist. 📷 Fleming Collection

Welcome Ben Uri to the Art UK shop 🙌

Bring an artwork from this unique collection into your home with prints by artists including Mark Gertler, Josefine Auspitz and David Bomberg 👉 shop.artuk.org/marketplace/se…

🧑‍🎨 David Bomberg (1890–1957) © the estate of David Bomberg.

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The Superpower of Looking Freelands Foundation

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The power of blue 💙

Discover surrealist artworks in The Reiff Collection in this new story 👉 ow.ly/zvBI50RBeq2

'Waiters 1936' by Lill Tschudi (1911–2004) © the artist's estate. 📷 The Reiff Collection

Bring Ray Harryhausen's incredible art into your life ✨

Shop for official Harryhausen prints and gifts on Art UK . Every purchase supports The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation in our efforts to preserve Ray's creature collection for future generations to enjoy. Check…

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Shop our huge selection of framed prints 👉 shop.artuk.org/prints.html

Today marks 200 years of the @nationalgallery 🎉

It wasn't until the opening in 1824 that casual art viewing was possible for the general public.

Take a look at the UK's early public galleries 👉 ow.ly/8R7C50RzsPJ

🧑‍🎨 Giuseppe Gabrielli 📷 @nationalgallery

A most celebratory #OnlineArtExchange for National Gallery's bicentenary #NG200 🎉 thanks all!

Next week is Egypt for Creatures of the Nile at Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool, curated by Garstang Museum 🙌

'Party 680' by Caroline Hulse (b.1949) © the artist. 📷 Royal Borough of Greenwich

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Today's #OnlineArtExchange celebrates National Gallery's bicentenary. 🎉🍾

We've chosen this jam-packed party scene for the occasion.

🖼 Night by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880–1952)
🏛MCR Art Gallery

This week, we're celebrating 200 years of the National Gallery with #OnlineArtExchange ! 🥹🎉

For us, nothing screams celebration more than food and flowers!💐🍊 #NG200

🖼️Jan van Os, Flowers and Fruit, 1744-1808, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Art Funded 1955.

This week's #onlineartexchange theme is celebration for the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery. From the well mined collection of images of Southend taken by Josef Koudelka , we're sharing this image of revellers in Southend captured in 1971. Southend Museums

Beyond the pale – read more about 'blushing and whiteness in eighteenth-century portraits of women' 👉 ow.ly/MKck50RoZ9J

'Louisa Jane Allen (Mrs John Wedgwood)' by Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) 📷 Fairfax House

This year marks the National Gallery 's bicentenary ✨🖼✨
We're marking the occasion for Art UK 's #OnlineArtExchange with this oil painting by Bernard Dunstan of the gallery in the 1950s.
🎨 National Gallery (1958) by Bernard Dunstan
Credit: The Box, Plymouth
#NG200

The #OnlineArtExchange this week is a celebration of 200 years of National Gallery 🥳

So we're off to the seaside with this 'Beach Scene, Trouville 1873' by Eugène Louis Boudin

Last year we had on loan last year as part of our Light & Soul exhibition

cooper-gallery.com/light_and_soul

Whoop! It's an #onlineartexchange #celebration for National Gallery's bicentenary 🥳 #BG200

Hats off!

🖌The Picnic Party
👨‍🎨Albert Ludovici (1852–1932)
🖼Sheffield Museums