The pictures in the National Gallery are hung methodically, so far as the wall-space and other circumstances will admit, in order to illustrate the different schools of painting, and to facilitate their historical study. Introductions to the several Foreign Schools of Painting, thus arranged, will be found in the following pages together with references to many of the chief painters in each school who are represented in the Gallery. Introductory remarks on the British School and British Painters will be found in Volume II. At the present time (May 1912) the arrangement of the Gallery is in a transitional state, as some of the Rooms are still in process of reconstruction or rearrangement. When this work is finished, the arrangement of the whole Gallery will, it is expected, be as shown below:-- ARCHAIC GREEK PORTRAITS: North Vestibule. ITALIAN SCHOOLS:-- _Early Tuscan_: North Vestibule. _Florentine and Sienese_: Rooms I., II., V. _Florentine (later)_: Room III. _Milanese_: Room IV. _Umbrian_: Room VI. _Venetian_: Room VII. _Venetian (later)_: Room IX. _Paduan_: Room VIII. _Venice, etc._: the Dome. _Brescian and Bergamese_: Room XV. _Bolognese_: Room XXV. _Late Italian_: Room XXIII. SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS AND GERMANY:-- _Early Netherlands_: Room XI. _Later Flemish_ (Rubens, etc.): Room X. _Dutch_ (landscape: Ruysdael, etc.): Room XII. _Dutch_ (Rembrandt): Room XIII. _Dutch_: Room XIV. _German_: Room XXIV. SPANISH SCHOOL: Room XVI. FRENCH SCHOOL: Rooms XVII., XVIII. BRITISH SCHOOLS:-- _Hogarth, etc._: Room XXII. _Reynolds, Gainsborough, etc._: Room XXI. _Romney, Morland, etc._: Room XX. _Turner_: Room XIX. The rooms on the ground floor, hitherto occupied by the Turner Water-Colours (now for the most part removed to the Tate Gallery: _see_ Vol. II.), will be arranged with pictures of minor importance, with the Arundel Society's collection and other copies, and with photographs and other aids to study. It should, however, be understood that the scheme of arrangement set out above is provisional, and may be modified. It is also possible that the numbering of the rooms may be altered. Should this be the case, the visitor would have no difficulty in marking the changes on the Plan. [Illustration: PLAN OF THE ROOMS. _W. Wilkins 1838_ _E. M. Barry 1876_ _Sir J. Taylor 1887_