Book this private experience for 1-10 people for a positively irreverent guided tour of the National Gallery.

Together with your host, Ingrid, an art historian and London tour guide, you will explore significant masterpieces of European painting - which all broke with established norms, were politically incorrect or considered too provocative by their contemporaries.

Paintings explored will include works by Velázquez, Turner and Manet, and you will get an insight into the explore the more controversial aspects of the lives of both the paintings themselves and the artists behind them.

The tour will include many renowned highlights but also some lesser-known masterpieces that you may not have encountered before.