The National Gallery on Trafalgar Square was designed by William Wilkins, with construction beginning in 1832 and the gallery opening in 1838. The article names no client. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown designed the Sainsbury Wing in 1991, and Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones designed the East Wing in 2004.
The article calls the Sainsbury Wing Postmodernist and the Barry Rooms Neo-Renaissance, and it names no style for Wilkins's building. The Sainsbury Wing uses pietra serena stone, and the Barry Rooms have dark marble doorcases. It gives no dimensions. The Pennethorne gallery dates to 1860 and 1861, and the Barry Rooms to 1872 to 1876.
An expansion budgeted at 375 million pounds was announced in September 2025 and is expected in the early 2030s, with a planned wing by Kengo Kuma and Associates subject to ratification. Entry to the main collection is free, and the gallery had 4,147,544 visitors in 2025.
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