BGRE has collaborated with the National Gallery and the Eastern City BID for Faces of a City, a public display bringing a curated selection of works from the UK’s national collection into the heart of the Square Mile.

Running for three months from mid-September, the accessible for all display will see 13 masterpieces by the likes of Thomas Gainsborough and Henri Rousseau reproduced at large scale on the glass frontage of 99 Bishopsgate, while this prominent City office building is being readied for redevelopment. The open-air display will also feature several works from across the National Gallery’s collection, some of which are currently not on display in the gallery, offering a rare opportunity to enjoy some of the nation’s favourite paintings up close in an enlarged format.

The display highlights remarkable works of merchants, workers, entrepreneurs and everyday people. In doing so, it tells the enduring human stories of the people who have made cities around the world what they are today, and that continue to shape them.

The featured artworks are:

• Jan Gossaert (Jean Gossart), The Adoration of the Kings, 1510-15
• Dossa Dossi, A Man embracing a Woman, 1524-6
• Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia, c. 1530-3
• Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533
• Workshop of Marinus van Reymerswale, Two Tax-Gatherers, c. 1540s
• Philips Koninck, An Extensive Landscape with a Road by a River, 1655
• Pietro Longhi, Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice, c. 1751
• Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782
• Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs Siddons, 1785
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Madame Moitessier, 1856
• Andrea Solario, A Man with a Pink, 1875
• Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897
• Henri Rousseau, Portrait of Joseph Brummer, 1909

All works on display feature a QR code that leads to the National Gallery’s website for more in-depth information, including the stories behind each artwork.