In 2010, Paul Harvey's painting of Charles Saatchi was banned from the window display of the Artspace Gallery in Maddox Street, London, on the grounds that it was " too controversial for the area ".

The Saatchi Gallery said that Saatchi " would not have any problem " with the painting's display.

In 2004 outside the launch of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery they wore tall hats with Charles Saatchi's face emblazoned and carried placards claiming that Saatchi had copied their ideas.

Previous Saatchi Gallery shows had included such major figures as Warhol, Guston, Alex Katz, Serra, Kiefer, Polke, Richter and many more.

In Britain, the rise to prominence of the Young British Artists ( YBAs ) after the 1988 Freeze show, curated by Damien Hirst, and subsequent promotion of the group by the Saatchi Gallery during the 1990s, generated a media backlash, where the phrase " conceptual art " came to be a term of derision applied to much contemporary art.

In October 2004 the Saatchi Gallery told the media that " painting continues to be the most relevant and vital way that artists choose to communicate.

* 1991: Charles Saatchi funds Damien Hirst and the next year in the Saatchi Gallery exhibits his The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine.

John Murphy, Avis Newman, Paula Rego, The Saatchi Gallery, London

In 2005, he was one of the artists exhibited in part 1 of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

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In 1991, Charles Saatchi had offered to fund whatever artwork Hirst wanted to make, and the result was showcased in 1992 in the first Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in North London.

In 2000, Hirst's sculpture Hymn ( which Saatchi had bought for a reported £ 1m ) was given pole position at the show Ant Noises ( an anagram of " sensation ") in the Saatchi Gallery.

In April 2003, the Saatchi Gallery opened at new premises in County Hall, London, with a show that included a Hirst retrospective.

A Thousand Years was admired by Bacon, who in a letter to a friend a month before he died, wrote about the experience of seeing the work at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

* Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London ( featuring Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living )

The Saatchi Gallery opened in the main building in 2008.

There is also a suite of exhibition rooms which was home to the Saatchi Gallery from 2003 to 2006, and is now home for the London Film Museum.

On October 21, 2005, the High Court of England and Wales upheld a bid by the owners of the building, Shirayama Shokusan, to have the Saatchi Gallery evicted on grounds of violating its contract, particularly using space outside of the rented area for exhibits.

One of the visitors to Freeze was Charles Saatchi, a major contemporary art collector and co-founder of Saatchi and Saatchi, the London advertising agency.

This piece was later bought by Charles Saatchi and included in the successful 1997 Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of London ; it then toured to Berlin and New York.

In 1997 work which Landy had previously sold to Charles Saatchi was included in the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

In 1991, Wallinger exhibited a series of full length portrait paintings of the homeless called " Capital " at the ICA in London that were bought by Charles Saatchi and later exhibited at his gallery along with Wallinger's life size paintings of racehorses.

Ofili was established through exhibitions by Charles Saatchi at his gallery in north London and the travelling exhibition Sensation ( 1997 ), becoming recognised as one of the few British artists of African / Caribbean descent to break through as a member of the Young British Artists group.

Paula Rego: The Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia, Marlborough Fine Art, London and Saatchi Collection, London.

Paula Rego: The Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia, Marlborough Fine Art, London and Saatchi Collection, London.

In 1997, his work was included in Sensation, a touring show of the Charles Saatchi art collection at the Royal Academy, London.

She lives in St John's Wood, London, in a house previously occupied by Reverend John Hugh Smyth-Piggott, and by Charles Saatchi, and which was featured in Sir John Betjeman's 1973 film Metro-land.

The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 2000 and for a time, was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Following stints starting as a copywriter at the London offices of Benton & Bowles in 1965, then at Collett Dickenson Pearce and John Collins & Partners, Charles Saatchi teamed up with Art director Ross Cramer and the genesis of what would become Saatchi & Saatchi was born in London in 1967 as the creative consultancy CramerSaatchi.

File: Albrecht Dürer 012. jpg | St Jerome in the Wilderness, 1495, oil on panel, National Gallery, London

His Landscape with Footbridge ( National Gallery, London ) of 1518-1520 is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil.

Thomson was associated with the National Gallery ( London ), it was here that he established a set of guidelines or environmental controls for the best conditions in which objects could be stored and displayed within the Museum Environment.

There is a portrait of him by Francis Wheatley in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

File: Berthe Morisot-Sommertag-1879. jpeg | Summer Day National Gallery, London 1879

However, following the founding of the National Gallery, London in 1824, the proposed Picture Gallery was no longer needed, and the space on the upper floor was given over to the Natural History collections.

Street hockey on Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery, for Canada Day in London, England

Image: Monet, Lavacourt-Sunshine-and-Snow. jpg | Lavacourt: Sunshine and Snow, 1879 – 1880 National Gallery, London

Image: Claude Monet 044. jpg | Sea-Roses ( Yellow Nirwana ), 1920, The National Gallery, London

In 1789 George Dance invented an Ammonite Order, a variant of Ionic substituting volutes in the form of fossil ammonites for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London.

In 1999 Lucian Freud painted and etched several copies after The Young Schoolmistress ( National Gallery, London ).

One of the largest of these paintings is a view of St. Bartholomew's Church at Lawrie Park Avenue, commonly known as The Avenue, Sydenham, in the collection of the London National Gallery.

Image: Camille Pissarro 038. jpg | Self-portrait, 1903, Tate Gallery, London

* The Côte des Bœufs at L ’ Hermitage-National Gallery, London

File: David Vilain. jpg | The Comtesse Vilain XIIII and Her Daughter ( 1816 ), National Gallery, London

National Portrait Gallery, London

National Portrait Gallery, London

File: PAUL DELAROCHE-Ejecución de Lady Jane Grey ( National Gallery de Londres, 1834 ). jpg | Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, National Gallery, London

James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery ( London ) | National Portrait Gallery, William Godwin, a radical liberalism | liberal and utilitarian was one of the first to espouse what became known as individualist anarchism.

The painting is known as Pindar and Ictinus and is exhibited at the National Gallery, London.

He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.

* Severn's portrait paintings of himself, Keats, Edward John Trelawny and John Hamilton Reynolds kept in the National Portrait Gallery in London