It holds the world's finest art library, the National Art Library. For this alone, it would be a worthwhile place to visit. However, its funds are numerous and well diversified. Raphael's cartoons for tapestries are noteworthy, as is a remarkably interesting collection of English XIX c. paintings, among which stand out John Constable's (1776-1837) canvases created in Hampstead, where he is buried. A series of late Classical sculptures can also be seen and, as if all this were not enough, a considerable assortment of furniture, porcelain, coins, suits of
