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Shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens over more than 500 years, the Royal Collection includes paintings, drawings and watercolours, furniture, ceramics, clocks, silver, sculpture, jewellery, books, manuscripts, prints and maps, arms and armour, fans, and textiles. It is is held in trust by The Queen as Sovereign for her successors and the Nation, and is not owned by her as a private individual. Image File history File links Charles_I.jpg Summary King Charles I of England by Van Dyck Licensing This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. ...
The British Museum front entrance on Great Russell Street. ...
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The Queen's Gallery
The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace is a permanent space dedicated to changing exhibitions of items from the Royal Collection, the wide-ranging collection of art and treasures held in trust by The Queen for the Nation. Constructed forty years ago on the west front of Buckingham Palace out of the bomb-damaged ruins of the former private chapel, the Gallery has recently been redeveloped. It was reopened by The Queen on 21 May 2002 and is now open to the public on a daily basis.
Containing three-and-a-half times more display space, the new Queen's Gallery is approached through a striking portico leading to a soaring double-height entrance hall and staircase. A multimedia room provides space for computer kiosks, which can be used independently of a visit to the exhibitions. They provide information about items in the current display.
On the upper level of The Queen's Gallery there are seven galleries or rooms, used in a variety of combinations, for special exhibitions of paintings, prints, drawings and watercolours, furniture, porcelain, miniatures, enamels, jewellery and other works of art. The new public areas on the first floor include education and lecture rooms for a range of events.
Departments
Paintings and Miniatures The Royal Collection holds over 7,000 paintings and 3,000 miniatures, one of the most important holdings of Western pictorial art in the world. Dating back to the late 15th century with the establishment of the Tudor dynasty, the collection reflects the individual tastes and needs of kings, queens, consorts and princes over the last 400 years. Unlike a museum collection, therefore, the Royal Collection does not provide a comprehensive,chronological survey. However, the greatest strengths of the Collection lie in the European Old Masters, British portraiture and Victorian painting.
The most important series of works from the Italian Renaissance are Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar at Hampton Court and the Raphael Tapestry Cartoons on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Collection also holds beautiful examples of the work of Bellini, Titian, Correggio, Parmigianino and Lorenzo Lotto. There is a particularly rich group of 18th-century Italian paintings, including 50 works by Canaletto. There are outstanding examples of Flemish 17th-century painting by Rubens, Van Dyck and Teniers. There is also a fine group of works by painters associated with the Golden Age in 17th-century Holland including Jan Vermeer's A lady at the virginals with a gentleman and enriched by genre subjects by de Hooch, ter Borch, Dou, Metsu, Ostade, together with landscapes by Ruisdael and Hobbema.
With the acquisition of the Öttingen Wallerstein collection, the Royal Collection was added with works by Fra Angelico, Gozzoli, Duccio and Daddi. After the Prince’s death, 22 of the best pictures were given by the queen to the National Gallery in his memory.
Additional to mainstream European Western Art, the Royal Collection provides an unparalleled history of portrait painting in Britain, from Hans Holbein in the 16th century to Lucian Freud in our own time. Every major contributor to this great tradition – Van Dyck, Lely, Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence – is represented by some of their most ambitious works. The Collection embraces many types of portraiture, from the grandest images of monarchy to Johann Zoffany’s informal ‘conversation pieces’.
The 3,000 miniatures in the Royal Collection constitute one of the largest groups of such works in existence. The collection spans four centuries and includes examples by the greatest practitioners – François Clouet, Hans Holbein the Younger, Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper, Jeremiah Meyer, Richard Cosway and Sir William Ross. The development of the miniature as an art form, from its origins in the early 16th century to its slow decline in the 19th, can be traced through examples in the Royal Collection.
Decorative Arts
Drawings, Watercolours and Prints
Books and Manuscripts
Sculpture
Furniture
Historic Photographs
Collection Management The Royal Collection Department is an organisation within the Royal Household tasked with the cataloguing, conservation, cleaning, restoration and display of the books, pictures, sculptures and other works of art collected by the British Royal Family. In all the medieval monarchies of western Europe the general system of government sprang from, and centred in, the royal household. ...
Members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony Close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom are known by the appellation The Royal Family. ...
It is headed by a director who oversees the work of three expert advisors: The Director of the Royal Collection is head of the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. ...
The activities of the Royal Collection Department are funded by the Royal Collection Trust, established in 1993, which deals with the purchase and sale of works of art, and which holds copyright on the items of the collection. The Prince of Wales is Chairman, and the Lord Chamberlain for the time being is Deputy Chairman. This office, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity - as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House...
This office, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of works of art owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity - as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at...
The office of Royal Librarian in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of books and manuscripts owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity — as distinct from those owned privately...
The Royal Collection Trust is a body established in 1993 to manage the Royal Collection of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor; born Windsor, 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...
The Lord Chamberlain or Lord Chamberlain of the Household is one of the chief officers of the Royal Household in the United Kingdom, and is to be distinguished from the Lord Great Chamberlain, one of the Great Officers of State. ...
The Royal Collection Management Committee has control of the operational aspects of collections policy. The Royal Collection Management Committee has control of the administration of the Royal Collection of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, and is a part of the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household. ...
Notable officials Photo of Sir Kenneth Clark Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood, OM CH KCB, (July 13, 1903 – May 21, 1983) was an English author, museum director, broadcaster, and the most famous art historian of his generation. ...
This office, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity - as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983) was an English art historian and the Fourth Man of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ...
This office, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity - as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House...
Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
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