LONDON, ENGLAND.- The National Maritime Museum presents Art for the Nation, on view through September 2, 2007. This major new exhibition in the historic Queen's House brings together 200 of the Museum's finest works for the largest in-depth display of paintings we have ever staged – combining works by internationally-significant artists such as Gainsborough, Lely, Hogarth, Reynolds and Turner.

The paintings are hung by collection to illustrate genres, schools and tastes which led to their inclusion in the National Maritime Museum as a collective visual expression of Britain's maritime identity.