with have
many
other in begin
permission which
on admission
include since On the north
side of Trafalgar, famous for its Admiral Nelson, its fountains and its hordes
of pigeons, there stands a long, low building in classic style. This is the
National Gallery, 1 contains Britain’s
best-known collection of pictures. The collection was
2 in 1824, with the purchase of thirty-eight pictures that
3 Horgarth’s satirical series and
Titian’s "Venus and Adonis". The National Gallery is rich
4 paintings by Italian masters such as
Raphael and Veronese, and it contains pictures representative of all European
schools of art. Many visitors are especially attracted to Leonardo da Vinci’s
"Virgin of the Rocks". On sunny days, students and 5 young people are often to be seen 6 a sandwich lunch on the portico (门廊) of the
Gallery overlooking Trafalgar Square. 7 to the Gallery is free, as is the case 8
other British national galleries and museums, which are
maintained by money voted by Parliament. Bequests of pictures have been made to
the galleries, at times 9 a generous
scale, by private individuals. Just behind the National Gallery
stands the National Portrait Gallery, in which the visitors can see portraits of
British monarchs 10 the reign of
Richards II (1377—1399), and of historical celebrities such as Chaucer,
Shakespeare, and Cromwell. Many of the pictures are by well-known
artists.