The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States.
the national gallery (=owned by the country)
Edinburgh has three national galleries.
verbs
visit/go to a gallery
The children visited the gallery on a school trip.
a painting hangs in a gallery
Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.
a gallery is showing/exhibiting something
The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.
exhibit something in/at a gallery
It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery.
gallery + NOUN
gallery space (=area for displaying art )
She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology.
Examples from the Corpus
gallery• Heroes of change, locally and internationally, will be honored in a gallery of photography, artwork, paintings and sculpture.• He owns and operates an art gallery in downtown Phoenix that shows only his own work.• One of the rooms has been made into a small modern art gallery.• They asked if I would like to be gallerysecretary.• a craftgallery downtown• There were four galleries here, of which two remain.• Our stepsecho over the marble floors, through the cavernous rooms and long galleries.• We spent the afternoon looking at paintings in the NationalGallery.• The museum's new gallery will be named after the Andersons.• the National PortraitGallery in Washington• the public gallery in Congress• Burglars broke into the gallery shortly after the Erte was hung.• Dale is showing some of his work in one of the galleries downtown.• It's a kind of work encountered with more and more frequency in New York galleries these days.
Origingallery
(1400-1500)Medieval Latingaleria, perhaps from galilaea“small room for praying in inside a church”, probably from Galilaea“Galilee”, area in Palestine where Christ traveled and taught
1for art藝術ADJECTIVE | VERB + GALLERY | GALLERY + VERB | GALLERY + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤art, exhibition, fine-art, picture, portrait, sculpture藝術館;展覽館;美術館;畫廊;肖像畫廊;雕刻畫廊➤museum博物館▸➤commercial, private, public商業/私人/公共畫廊▸➤national國家美術館◇He offered ten major paintings to start a national gallery of modern art.他為創建國家現代美術館提供了 10 幅重要畫作。➤prestigious有聲望的畫廊VERB + GALLERY➤go to, visit去美術館;參觀畫廊GALLERY + VERB➤display sth, exhibit sth, feature sth, show sth, showcase sth藝術館展出/展覽/特別展出/展示/陳列⋯◇Some of his work has been exhibited by local art galleries.他的一些作品在當地的一些美術館展出過。➤carry sth, contain sth, house sth美術館持有/擁有/收藏有⋯◇a fabulous gallery housing the work of major artists藏有主要藝術家作品的一流美術館➤specialize in sth展覽館專門展出⋯◇a gallery specializing in ceramics陶瓷展覽專館➤close, open展覽館關閉/開放GALLERY + NOUN➤space展館空間◇The building will provide plenty of new gallery space.該建築將大幅增加展覽空間。➤exhibit, exhibition, show展館展覽;展館展覽會➤curator, director, manager, owner, staff美術館館長/主管/經理/館主/工作人員➤visitor美術館參觀者➤opening美術館開放➤scene展館界◇the type of photographic work now dominating the gallery scene當前在展館界佔主流地位的攝影作品的類型➤guide (= book)美術館參觀指南PREPOSITION➤at a/the gallery在展館中◇The painting is now on display at the National Gallery.這幅畫目前正在國家美術館展出。➤in a/the gallery在展館內◇There were very few people in the gallery.展覽館內的人寥寥無幾。gallery
noun²
2on the Internet因特網ADJECTIVE➤interactive, online, virtual互動式/在線/虛擬展館➤photo圖片庫➤extensive圖片大全◇There is also an extensive gallery of photos.還有一個包含大量圖片的圖片庫。gallery
noun³
3in a hall大廳內ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤long, wide長廊;寬敞的廊台▸➤first-floor, upper, upstairs二樓廊台;頂層樓座;樓上廊台▸➤press, public記者/公眾旁聽席◇The packed public gallery erupted in a roar of approval.擁擠的公眾旁聽席上爆發出一陣贊同的歡呼聲。➤packed擁擠的旁聽席➤viewing觀景台PREPOSITION➤in a/the gallery在廊台中◇I found myself in a wide gallery looking down on the floor below.我發現自己已不知不覺來到了一個可以俯視樓下的寬敞廊台上。