The Collection
Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world's most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. The collection is also one of the oldest in Great Britain. Ian Dejardin, Director and Xavier Salomon, Curator talk you through some of the rich paintings and a brief history of the gallery

		One of the most successful art dealerships of Georgian London was a partnership between Noel Desenfans and Francis Bourgeois the founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Ian Dejardin introduces these two men in DPG own theatrical Mausoleum bathed in orange light and only a few feet away from the Gallery.
		Xavier Salomon looks at Guido Reni's Saint Sebastian a deeply religious subject but also a sensually charged image. it was the focal point of Sir John Soane's Gallery at Dulwich for most of the nineteenth-century and is one of the collection's best-known works.
		Xavier Salomon compares John Constable's copy of van Ruisdael's 'Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem' where both paintings sit side by side in the Gallery
		Venetia Stanley went to bed one night and never woke up again leaving many grieving people. Her husband, so distraught, asked Van Dyke to capture her beauty while she lay dead in bed. Ian Dejardin gives us an insight into why she died so mysteriously.
		Noel Desenfens was engaged in assembling a collection of old master paintings for the King of Poland. Because of the King's enforced abdication they were never delivered. James Northcote has painted Desenfens with a slight smile and Ian Dejardin thinks he knows why.
		This painting of a young man is definitely a Florentine work around 1500 first attributed to Leonardo da Vince and later to Boltraffio but now is generally accepted as Piero di Cosimo. Xavier Salomon takes a closer look at the painting and sheds some light on the painting and the artist
		A mysterious little painting of Dutch origin but who is the artist? Ian Dejardin delves deep into the landscape and discovers a possible answer.