Guildhall Art Gallery

The City of London began collecting works of art in the seventeenth century, when it commissioned portraits of the judges appointed to assess property claims in the wake of the Great Fire of London of 1666. Its collection now comprises 4,000 works of art ranging from portraits of kings and queens to depictions of important naval battles, from period views of historic London to the work of contemporary artists. Since the Second World War, the City of London’s collection has concentrated on London subjects. Perhaps the most popular works in the Guildhall collection are its Victorian pictures, including well-known favourites like Millais’ My First Sermon and My Second Sermon and Landseer’s The First Leap , as well as a large landscape by John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows. The Guildhall Art Gallery also houses the famous painting The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar by John Singleton Copley.

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