The National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square houses one of the greatest collections of Western European painting in the world, ranging from the middle ages to the first decade of the twentieth century. Priced at £5, National Gallery Souvenir is excellent value, enabling visitors to take home with them fifty of the most famous paintings in the world.

Readers can stroll through this book taking in seven hundred years of painting. On the way, they will encounter some of the most famous and recognisable names in art, including Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Monet and Van Gogh. The book begins with a brief introduction but the emphasis is on the pictures themselves, with beautiful reproductions of much-loved favourites, alongside major new acquisitions by Gauguin, Titian and George Bellows.