The Sainsbury Wing, The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Greater London

The National Gallery was built in 1832-8 to house the Angerstein Collection. In 1991 a new wing opened on the site of a former furniture store that was destroyed during the Second World War. Designed by designed by the postmodernist architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to house the collection of Renaissance paintings, it was financed by Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and his brothers The Honourable Simon Sainsbury and Sir Timothy Sainsbury.

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