The director, Nicholas Penny, termed the painting a new path for the gallery, a non-European portray in a European fashion. A fund for the acquisition of modern work established by Samuel Courtauld in 1923 bought Seurat’s Bathers at Asnières and different trendy works for the nation; in 1934, many of those were transferred to the National Gallery from the Tate. 100 Pall Mall, the house of the National Gallery from 1824 to 1834The National Gallery opened in 1824 in Angerstein’s former townhouse at No. one hundred Pall Mall. Angerstein’s paintings were joined in 1826 by these from Beaumont’s assortment, and…