Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery

The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery opened in 2015 and is now The ��ý Gallery’s first dedicated space for the display of drawings.

Numbering some 7,000 works and featuring artists such as Dürer, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Cézanne, The ��ý’s collection of drawings is one of the most important in the UK. The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery provides a dedicated space at the heart of the Gallery to transform public awareness and enjoyment of this collection.

Highlights

Watercolour and grey ink washes with some drawing with the point of a brush, showing the forest of radnor with the black mountains in the distance — Francis Towne (1739 - 1816) Forest of Radnor, with the Black Mountains in the distance, 1810, The ��ý, London (Samuel ��ý Trust) © The ��ý

Giovanni Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768), View from Somerset Gardens looking towards London Bridge, 1746 - 1755 (circa), The ��ý, London (Samuel ��ý Trust) © The ��ý

A still life composition in graphite and watercolour showing a table setting with a display of apples, a bottle and glass to the left and the back of a chair. — Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Apples, bottle and chairback, 1904 - 1906 (circa), The ��ý, London (Samuel ��ý Trust) © The ��ý

The Collection

Explore the ��ý’s remarkable collection of paintings, prints and drawings, sculpture and decorative arts.

Gallery Virtual Tours

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