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The Tate Gallary
There are many sights in London. They are Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Albert Hall (one of the biggest concert halls in London), Trafalgar Square and others.
If you are fond of paintings you'll go to the Tate Gallery.
The founder of this gallery was Henry Tate, a sugar manufacturer. He was a very rich man and collected paintings.
This gallery was founded in 1897. Most of the National Gallery collections of British paintings were taken to the Tate Gallery.
There are about 300 oils and 19,000 water colours and drawings.
There are a lot of paintings by the 16th century English artists there. You can also see many works by the English painter William Turner. Most of his paintings are connected with the sea theme.
You can see many paintings by foreign artists of the 19—20th centuries in the Tate Gallery. There are some paintings by impressionists and post-impressionists there.
In the Tate Gallery one can see works by modern painters, Pablo Picasso among them.
There are many interesting sculptures there. The collection is rather big. Henry Moore's works can be seen in this gallery. He was a famous British sculptor.
The paintings of this gallery impress everyone who visits it.
WORDS
1. The Tate Gallery – галерея Тейта (живописи)
2. manufacturer – фабрикант
3. W. Turner (1775—1851) – В. Тернер – английский живописец
4. sculpture – скульптура
5. H. Moore (1898—1986) – Г. Мур – английский скульптор
6. P. Picasso (1881—1973) – П.Пикасса – французский художник испанского происхождения
7. among – среди