Highlights from the UCL Art Museum

The Four Founders of UCL

Mural by a Slade professor to celebrate UCL's centenary.

Monument to Major-General Sir Barry Close

The marble monument to Major general Sir Barry Close made from this model is in Madras, demonstrating Flaxman's international fame.

Under Milk Wood

This prize-winning Slade painting shows three strong women gossiping in a Portuguese kitchen, anticipating the dominant female characters in the artist's later work.

Female figure lying on her back

The Slade is renowned for being the first art school to allow female students to study from the life model.

The Nativity

Spencer's The Nativity won first prize in the Slade Summer Composition Competition of 1912 and marks the end of his Slade studies.

Marmor Homericum

The inhabitants of Delos listen spellbound as Homer recites the Illiad in this work commissioned by George Grote, one of UCL’s founders.

A Prospect of the City of Rome from Monte Gianicolo

This vast panorama of Rome, composed of six plates, would have had pride of place in an 18th-century gentleman’s library.

Rustic Scene: Villagers Dancing

The first mural ever painted by Rex Whistler, an artist who led the revival of British mural painting in the 1920s and 30s.