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The 100 best paintings in London: Tate Britain

Leading artists, gallery owners, curators and critics pick the best paintings to be seen in the capital

Friday 27 March 2015

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Tate Modern gets all the attention, but the original Tate Gallery, founded by sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, has a broader and more inclusive brief. Housed in a stately Portland stone building on the riverside, Tate Britain is second only to the National Gallery when it comes to British art. The historical collection includes work by Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable and Turner (in the superb Clore Gallery).

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Paintings to see at Tate Britain

'Melanie and me Swimming' - Michael Andrews

WHEN? 1978-1979
I LIKE IT See also 'Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy'

'Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion' - Francis Bacon

WHEN? 1944
I LIKE IT See also 'Triptych – August 1972'

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'Triptych – August 1972' by Francis Bacon

WHEN? 1972
I LIKE IT See also 'Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion'

WHEN? 1819
I LIKE IT See also 'A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star'

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'The Mud Bath' - David Bomberg

WHEN? 1914
I LIKE IT See also 'The Menin Road'

WHEN? 1975
I LIKE IT See also 'A Bigger Splash'

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'The Fairy-Feller's Masterstroke' - Richard Dadd

WHEN? 1855
I LIKE IT See also 'Ophelia'

WHEN? 1987
I LIKE IT See also

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'Echo Lake' - Peter Doig

WHEN? 1998
I LIKE IT See also 'Ski Jacket'

WHEN? 1994
I LIKE IT See also 'Echo Lake'

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'Girl with a White Dog' - Lucian Freud

WHEN? 1950
I LIKE IT See also

WHEN? 1976
I LIKE IT See also 'The Visit'

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'The Citizen' - Richard Hamilton

WHEN? 1993
I LIKE IT See also 'Electric Chair'

WHEN? 1967
I LIKE IT See also 'Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy'

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'Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy' - David Hockney

WHEN? 1970
I LIKE IT See also 'Melanie and me Swimming'

WHEN? 1909-10
I LIKE IT See also 'Self-Portrait'

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'Self-Portrait' - Gwen John

WHEN? 1902
I LIKE IT See also 'Nude Girl'

WHEN? 1959
I LIKE IT See also 'Abstract Painting No 5'

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'The Visit' - Willem de Kooning

WHEN? 1966-1967
I LIKE IT See also 'Monument'

WHEN? 1999
I LIKE IT See also 'Six Mile Bottom'

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'The Great Day of His Wrath' - John Martin

WHEN? 1851-3
I LIKE IT See also 'The Fighting Temeraire'

WHEN? 1953
I LIKE IT See also 'Weeping Woman'

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'Ophelia' - John Everett Millais

WHEN? 1851
I LIKE IT See also 'The Fairy-Feller's Masterstroke'

WHEN? 1998
I LIKE IT See also 'The Upper Room'

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'The Upper Room' - Chris Ofili

WHEN? 1999
I LIKE IT See also 'No Woman, No Cry'

WHEN? 1937
I LIKE IT See also 'The Three Dancers'

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'Abstract Painting No 5' - Ad Reinhardt

WHEN? 1962
I LIKE IT See also 'The Seagram Murals'

WHEN? 2006
I LIKE IT See also 'The Four Seasons'

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'Fall' - Bridget Riley

WHEN? 1963
I LIKE IT See also 'Six Mile Bottom'

'Self-Portrait as a Young Man' - Stanley Spencer

WHEN? 1914
I LIKE IT See also 'The Menin Road'

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'The Four Seasons' - Cy Twombly

WHEN? 1993
I LIKE IT See also 'Cage 1-6'

'Nocturne Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge' - James Abbott McNeill Whistler

WHEN? 1872
I LIKE IT See also 'Gassed'

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The 100 best paintings in London: Tate Britain

Paintings to see at Tate Britain

'Melanie and me Swimming' - Michael Andrews

'Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion' - Francis Bacon

'Triptych – August 1972' by Francis Bacon

'The Ghost of a Flea' - William Blake

'The Mud Bath' - David Bomberg

'After Lunch' - Patrick Caulfield

'The Fairy-Feller's Masterstroke' - Richard Dadd

'Mystic transportation' - René Daniëls

'Echo Lake' - Peter Doig

'Ski Jacket' - Peter Doig

'Girl with a White Dog' - Lucian Freud

'Monument' - Philip Guston

'The Citizen' - Richard Hamilton

'A Bigger Splash' - David Hockney

'Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy' - David Hockney

'Nude Girl' - Gwen John

'Self-Portrait' - Gwen John

'IKB 79' - Yves Klein

'The Visit' - Willem de Kooning

'I Love the Whole World' - Agnes Martin

'The Great Day of His Wrath' - John Martin

'The Snail' - Henri Matisse

'Ophelia' - John Everett Millais

'No Woman, No Cry' - Chris Ofili

'The Upper Room' - Chris Ofili

'Weeping Woman' - Pablo Picasso

'Abstract Painting No 5' - Ad Reinhardt

'Cage 1-6' - Gerhard Richter

'Fall' - Bridget Riley

'Self-Portrait as a Young Man' - Stanley Spencer

'The Four Seasons' - Cy Twombly

'Nocturne Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge' - James Abbott McNeill Whistler