Masterpieces from Malta

This painting, depicting the vision of St George on Horseback, was the artist’s introductory piece to Malta. It is recognised amongst the best Neapolitan Baroque works then painted in Italy at that time.

This painting is believed to be an emblematic self-portrait of Mattia Preti; the baroque artist and knight of Malta.

This painting depicts St Jerome in Jerusalem writing the vulgata. It was the former property of a Knight of Malta, Fra Ippolito Malaspina, and his coat-of-arms is included in the lower right corner of the painting.

This watercolour and gouache work of art is one of the very first responses to the concept of a monument to the Unknown Soldier. The structure had to be built in London.

This painting depicts the beheading of St John the Baptist, purposely painted for the space where it still hangs to date.

This etching shows the proposed marble group by the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafa for the church of Sant’Agostino (Rome).

This painting depicts the well known Bible story of Judith beheading the Assyrian General Holophernes. This painting is recognised to be amongst the artist’s finest works; possibly his masterpiece.

This is Victor Pasmore’s last painting before his passing away in 1998. Pasmore lived in Malta from 1966 till his death and is described by the British curator and art critic Kenneth Clarke as ‘as one of the two or three most talented British painters of …

There are a number of versions of this painting by Guido Reni but this is considered to be the prototype. It is a classical baroque interpretation of an idealised human figure.

This masterpiece by the Maltese artist Giuseppe Cali is inspired by Orientalism, fashionable at the time, and represents an episode from the Great Siege of Malta (1565).