Tate Britain - Permanent Collection

Permanent Collection

Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. As such, it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. Works in the permanent Tate collection, which may be on display at Tate Britain include:

  • John Constable, Flatford Mill

  • William Blake, Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils

  • J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm, Steam – Boat off a Harbour's Mouth

  • Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia

  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge

  • David Bomberg, The Mud Bath

  • Unknown 17th-century artist: The Cholmondeley Ladies
  • Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling
  • William Hogarth: The Painter and his Pug
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds: Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen
  • George Stubbs: Horse Attacked by a Lion
  • Thomas Gainsborough: Giovanna Baccelli
  • William Blake: Newton
  • J. M. W. Turner: The Golden Bough, Norham Castle, Sunrise
  • John Constable: Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)
  • John Martin: The Great Day of His Wrath
  • William Dyce: Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
  • Augustus Egg: Past and Present
  • Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
  • William Holman Hunt: The Awakening Conscience
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Ecce Ancilla Domini, Beata Beatrix
  • Sir John Everett Millais: Ophelia
  • Henry Wallis: The Death of Chatterton
  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge
  • John William Waterhouse: The Lady of Shalott
  • John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
  • Henry Scott Tuke: August Blue
  • Herbert James Draper: The Lament for Icarus
  • David Bomberg: The Mud Bath
  • Mark Gertler: The Merry-Go-Round
  • Stanley Spencer: The Resurrection, Cookham
  • Henry Moore: Recumbent Figure
  • Francis Bacon: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

The Tate collection is supported by BP. Recently, Tate Britain has unveiled a £45 million ($70.16 million) gallery makeover scheme designed by London-based practice Caruso St John Architects.

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