Tate Britain

Official website: https://www.tate.org.uk/

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

The 90s: Art and Fashion
08 October 2026 – 14 February 2027

Thomas Gainsborough
20 May 2027 – 10 October 2027

David Hockney
07 October 2027 – 20 February 2028

Permanent Collection

Baroque (c. 1600–1750)

Anthony van Dyck

  • Portrait of Sir William Killigrew  1638
  • A Lady of the Spencer Family  c.1633–8

British Masters

J.M.W. Turner

  • The Garreteer’s Petition  exhibited 1809
  • The Field of Waterloo  exhibited 1818

John Constable

  • Flatford Mill (‘Scene on a Navigable River’)  1816–7
  • A Windmill near Brighton  1824
  • Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath, with a Boy Sitting on a Bank c.1825
  • Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows  ?1829
  • The Sea near Brighton  1826
  • Chain Pier, Brighton  1826–7
  • Cloud Study  1822
  • The Glebe Farm  c.1830
  • Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows  exhibited 1831

Thomas Gainsborough

  • Giovanna Baccelli  exhibited 1782
  • Sir Henry Bate-Dudley, Bart.  c.1780
  • Rural Nomads Camping at Sunset  c.1778–80
  • The Baillie Family  c.1784

William Blake

  • The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan  c.1805–9

George Stubbs

  • Horse Devoured by a Lion  ?exhibited 1763
  • Haymakers  1785
  • Reapers  1785

Sir Joshua Reynolds

  • Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen 1773
  • The Age of Innocence  ?1788
  • Mrs Hartley as a Nymph with a Young Bacchus  exhibited 1773
  • The Hon. Miss Monckton  1777–8
  • Lady Bampfylde  1776–7

Joseph Wright of Derby

  • Three Children of Richard Arkwright with a Goat  1791
  • Sir Brooke Boothby  1781
  • An Iron Forge  1772

John Singer Sargent

  • Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood ?1885
  • A Nude Boy on a Beach  1878
  • Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: A Vele Gonfie  1904
  • W. Graham Robertson  1894
  • Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth  1889

William Hogarth

  • A Scene from ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ VI  1731
  • O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’)  1748
  • Heads of Six of Hogarth’s Servants  c.1750–5
  • The Strode Family  c.1738
  • Mrs Salter  1741
  • Lavinia Fenton, Duchess of Bolton  c.1740–50

Pre-Raphaelite Art

John William Waterhouse

  • The Lady of Shalott 1888

John Everett Millais

  • Ophelia 1851–2
  • The North-West Passage  1874
  • The Vale of Rest  1858–9
  • Christ in the House of His Parents (‘The Carpenter’s Shop’)  1849–50

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  • Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation)  1849–50
  • The Beloved (‘The Bride’)  1865–6
  • Beata Beatrix  c.1864–70
  • Proserpine  1874

Sir Edward Burne-Jones

  • Frieze of Eight Women Gathering Apples  1876

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

  • A Silent Greeting  1889
  • A Foregone Conclusion  1885
  • A Favourite Custom  1909

Aesthetic Movement

James McNeill Whistler

Post-Impressionism

Pierre Bonnard

  • Bathing Woman, Seen from the Back 1919

Naïve Art

L.S. Lowry

  • Coming Out of School  1927

Alfred Wallis

  • St Ives  c.1928

Fauvism

Henri Matisse

  • Standing Nude  1907

Surrealism

Max Ernst

  • Dadaville  c.1924

British Modernism

Walter Sickert

  • Variation on Peggy  1934–5
  • The New Bedford  c.1914–15
  • Brighton Pierrots  1915
  • Ennui  c.1914
  • L’Américaine  1908
  • Woman Washing her Hair  1906

Paul Nash

  • Equivalents for the Megaliths 1935

Ben Nicholson

  • 1933 (milk and plain chocolate)  1933
  • June 1937 (painting)  1937
  • 1936 (white relief sculpture – version 1)  1936

Vanessa Bell

Studland Beach 1912

Duncan Grant

Head of Eve  1913

Bathing  1911

Garden Path in Spring 1944

Pop Art

David Hockney

  • A Bigger Splash  1967

Peter Blake

  • Self-Portrait with Badges  1961

Pauline Boty

  • Portrait of Derek Marlowe with Unknown Ladies  1962–3

School of London

Francis Bacon

  • Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion  1944
  • Study for Portrait on Folding Bed  1963
  • Three Figures and Portrait  1975
  • Triptych August 1972  1972

Lucian Freud

  • Girl with a Kitten  1947

Modern British Sculpture

Henry Moore

  • Girl  1931
  • King and Queen  1952–3, cast 1957
  • Reclining Figure  1951
  • Family Group  1949, cast 1950–1
  • Falling Warrior  1956–7, cast c.1957–60
  • Helmet Head and Shoulders  1952, cast date unknown
  • Draped Seated Woman  1957–8, cast c.1958–63
  • + more

Barbara Hepworth

  • Figure of a Woman  1929–30
  • Three Forms  1935
  • Orpheus (Maquette 2) (Version II)  1956, edition 1959

Jacob Epstein

  • Doves  1914–15
  • Torso in Metal from ‘The Rock Drill’  1913–15

Contemporary British Artists

Damien Hirst

  • The Lovers (The Committed Lovers) (The Spontaneous Lovers) (The Detached Lovers) (The Compromising Lovers)  1991
  • Away from the Flock  1994

Bridget Riley

  • Elongated Triangles 5  1971
  • Fall  1963
  • Elongated Triangles I  1971
  • Untitled [Fragment 6/9]  1965
  • Untitled [Fragment 2/10]  1965
  • Untitled [Fragment 4/6]  1965
  • Untitled [Fragment 1/7]  1965
  • Untitled [Fragment 3/11]  1965
  • Untitled [Fragment 5/8]  1965

Chris Ofili

  • No Woman, No Cry  1998

Misc

Unknown artist, Britain, The Cholmondeley Ladies c.1600–10

Last reviewed: July 2026