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Ambreen Butt

Some of which includes, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Ohio, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; Kunsthall Fridericianum, Kassel; National Art Gallery, Pakistan; Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

Samara flag

The Samara flag, initially kept in Radomir from where its last bearer Pavel Korchev descended, was housed in the royal palace in Sofia (now the National Art Gallery) between 1881 and 1946, when it was transferred to the National Museum of Military History (NMMH).


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Cyprien Tanguay

A plaque marks the site of the house in which he lived in the Lower Town area of Ottawa not far from the National Art Gallery and the Byward Market.

Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo's The Assassination of Governor Bustamante at the National Art Gallery of the National Museum is Hidalgo's interpretation of the death of overnor Bustamante.

George Samuel Jenman

Castellani House, now the home of Guyana's National Art Gallery, was originally designed and built to be his official residence by the Maltese colonial architect Cesar Castellani.

Iliya Zhelev

His paintings are owned by the National Art Gallery Sofia, many galleries and collections in Germany, United States, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden United Arab Emirates, UK, Austria, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Russia and Israel.

James William Brodie

After retirement he was on the board of trustees of the National Art Gallery and National Museum and served on the project that transformed them into Te Papa.

Luit Bieringa

He is a champion of photography in New Zealand, promoting it on a national level with major exhibitions at the National Art Gallery during his directorship, including NZ surveys and retrospectives of the photography of Peter Black, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Richard Misrach.