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