Comments on: Dulwich Picture Gallery: The World’s First Purpose-Built Art Gallery

By: Sir John Soane's Museum: A unique Treasure Trove - Living London History

Sir John Soane's Museum: A unique Treasure Trove - Living London History — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:08:38 +0000

[…] go on to design the Bank of England (most of which was sadly demolished in the 1930s and rebuilt), Dulwich Picture Gallery, Pitzhangar Manor, parts of Royal Hospital Chelsea and his home on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, now home […]

By: anna cunningham

anna cunningham — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:56:54 +0000

Great piece here Jack as ever! It’s local to me but the mausoleum always confused me. Thank you for clearing it up!

By: Ian Yates

Ian Yates — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:10:43 +0000

A good friend of mine at Dulwich College who, on leaving the school became curator of The Picture Gallery in the late 1970’s. He would invited me and other mates to dinner I remember him waxing lyrical about theTitian hanging above the sitting room fireplace in the curator’s accommodation he lived in. He was John Sheeran and he went on to have a now famous son who also has a love of art, demostrated by the Matisse tattoo on his forearm!

By: Martha E Anderson

Martha E Anderson — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:28:51 +0000

You had me at Constable. Many recognize many of the paintings you featured. This goes on my list for next winter

By: Gary Curtis

Gary Curtis — Thu, 25 May 2023 09:13:59 +0000

Fantastic paintings. I really wish London had protected the skyline like Paris. All the churches look fantastic in that landscape.