Christ Church Picture Gallery
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Christ Church Picture Gallery is a picture gallery at Christ Church, Oxford, England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 200 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. It is one of the most important private collections in the United Kingdom. The greater part of the collection was bequeathed in 1765 by a former member of the college, General John Guise. Further gifts and bequests were made by W.T.H. Fox-Strangways, Walter Savage Landor, Sir Richard Nosworthy & C.R. Patterson.
The Picture Gallery is especially strong on Italian art from the 14th to 18th century. Artists represented include Annibale Carracci (The Butcher's Shop), Albrecht Dürer, Hugo van der Goes, Leonardo da Vinci, Frans Hals, Filippino Lippi, Michelangelo, Sano di Pietro, Raphael, Salvator Rosa, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, Anthony Van Dyck and Paolo Veronese.
The current gallery was designed by Hidalgo Moya and Philip Powell, and built in 1968 and is located in the Deanery garden.
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