Whistler, Monet and Renoir: Three London Exhibitions Closing by 27 September

Three London exhibitions reach their last day between Tuesday 22 and Sunday 27 September 2026: a free display at the National Gallery, Tate Britain's Whistler retrospective and The Photographers' Gallery's survey of Japanese women photographers. A fourth, Waldmüller: Landscapes, the National Gallery's first UK exhibition of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, closed on Sunday 20 September and is no longer on the gallery's exhibitions page. Here are the three that remain, in the order they close.

Monet and Renoir: Painting Side by Side — National Gallery, until Tuesday 22 September

The first to go is free. Room 41, and the gallery's page still says 'Until 22 September 2026' and 'Free to all visitors'. In 1869 Monet and Renoir each painted La Grenouillère, and the gallery says that 'for the first time in nearly twenty years, the National Gallery is reuniting two of these celebrated paintings'. Renoir's is on loan from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and it is not leaving yet: after this display it joins the gallery's 'Renoir and Love', which runs from 3 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. Its last day beside the Monet is Tuesday 22 September.

James McNeill Whistler — Tate Britain, until Sunday 27 September

Tate calls it 'the first major European exhibition of Whistler's work in 30 years', and the reviews on Tate's own page match the billing: five stars from the Guardian, the Independent, Time Out and the Standard, and four from the Telegraph. The Guardian's line, as Tate quotes it: 'A luscious, seductive blockbuster for the painter who scandalised Britain'.

The works include Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (1871), lent by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl. London is in the titles, too: Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge (c.1872–5, Tate) and Wapping (1860–64, National Gallery of Art, Washington). Tickets are £24, £22 concessions and £5 for Tate Collective, and members go free. Tate is also opening the show to members in the early hours on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September.

Three shows, one of them free, all gone by Sunday 27 September.

Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now — The Photographers' Gallery, until Sunday 27 September

What the gallery calls a major exhibition: more than 200 photographs, videos, installations and photobooks by 27 women, from the 1950s to now. It is organised by Aperture in collaboration with the Rencontres d'Arles, and curated by Lesley A. Martin, Takeuchi Mariko and Pauline Vermare.

Tickets are £14 in person and £12 online, both including an optional £2 donation; concessions are £11 and £9.50, and members go free. Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm, which makes Friday 25 September the last chance to see it for nothing.

Until Tuesday 22 September all three are open at once. From Wednesday 23 September only Whistler and the Japanese survey remain, and both close on Sunday 27 September.