Curator insights - Richard Beresford

Richard Beresford, senior curator of European art, looks at a selection of the Gallery’s European masters. Discover a deeper, richer engagement, with these much loved works, and view them through an expert’s eye. Curator insights run for around 5 minutes each.

All photographs © AGNSW unless otherwise stated
All works © the artist or the artist's estate unless otherwise stated
© Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013

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- Ford Madox Brown
  
  Chaucer at the court of Edward III 1847-1851
- Alphonse de Neuville
  
  The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879 1880
- Jacques Blanchard
  
  Mars and the vestal virgin 1638
- François Boucher
  
  A young lady holding a pug dog mid 1740s
- Claude Lorrain
  
  Pastoral landscape 1636-1637
- Evariste Vital Luminais
  
  The sons of Clovis II 1880
- Sano di Pietro
  
  Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, John the Baptist, Bernardino and Bartholomew 1450-1481
- Sir Peter Paul Rubens
  
  Constantius appoints Constantine as his successor 1622
- François Sallé
  
  The anatomy class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts 1888