The London National Gallery is a museum in London on Trafalgar Square, containing more than 2,000 examples of Western European painting from the 13th to early 20th centuries. The third most visited art museum in the world. The paintings in the gallery are exhibited in chronological order. The gallery opened on April 9, 1839. Sometimes the founding date is considered to be May 1824, when a collection of 38 paintings by Angerstein was acquired, which served as the core of the future gallery. In 1824, the government decided to acquire the collection of the banker Angerstein: five landscapes by Claude Lorrain, the painting “The Raising of Lazarus” by Sebastiano del Piombo, the paintings “Venus and Adonis” by Titian, “The Rape of the Sabine Women” by Rubens, Hogarth’s “Fashionable Marriage” series, a portrait of Admiral Heathfield by Reynolds and "Village Holiday" by Wilkie.