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Loans from the Royal Collection

Current loans to exhibitions from the Royal Collection

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Every year hundreds of objects, including paintings, drawings and decorative arts, are lent from the Royal Collection to institutions across the UK and abroad for both short- and long-term display. The loans programme, administered by Royal Collection Trust, enables new audiences to enjoy works of art from the Royal Collection, as well as helping us to increase our understanding of these works.

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See a selection of current loans from the Royal Collection below.

Six drawings by Annibale Carracci have been lent to a new exhibition at Musei Capitolini in Rome, which focuses on the patronage of the Farnese family in the 16th century. A key figure in this patronage was Cardinal Odoardo Farnese. He summoned the brothers Annibale and Agostino Carracci from Bologna to Rome around 1595, and commissioned them for two decorative schemes in Palazzo Farnese (now the seat of the French Embassy): the frescoed ceiling of his study, the Camerino, followed by the decoration of the sculpture gallery, the Galleria Farnese. Annibale’s frescoes in the Galleria are considered masterpieces of the Roman Baroque. 

Explore all six drawings in our Collection Online.

Visit the Musei Capitolini website.

This exhibition showcases works of art created during the reigns of the Mughal emperors Akbar (r.1556–1605), Jahangir (r.1605–1627) and Shah Jahan (r.1628–1658). It explores the internationalist culture in the royal workshops, where Iranian artists and craftsmen worked alongside Hindustani masters. Two exquisite illustrations from the Padshahnamah – the official chronicle of the reign of Shah Jahan – are on loan to the V&A. They depict Shah Jahan holding court in the Hall of Public Audience in Agra, as a group of Europeans bearing gifts wait to be received, and Shah Jahan receiving his son, Prince Awrangzeb, at court in Lahore. Until 5 May 2025.

Learn more about the Padshahnamah in our Collection Online.

Visit the V&A website.

An exhibition at the National Gallery in London will look at a newly conserved painting of The Vision of St Jerome by the Italian artist Parmigianino. It was his first major work on his arrival to Rome in the 1520s, commissioned when the painter was just 23 years old. The Royal Collection is lending a preparatory drawing by Parmigianino, which can be seen in the exhibition for the first time, allowing an exploration of Parmigianino's creative process. Until 9 March 2025.

Learn more about the drawing in our Collection Online.

Visit the National Gallery's website. 

An exhibition at the Garden Museum celebrates the lost gardens of London seen through artists’ eyes from around 1600 to the present day. It focuses on gardens that have either vanished altogether, or that have changed beyond recognition. A drawing by Wenceslaus Hollar of the seventeenth-century riverside gardens of Arundel House has been lent to the exhibition. Until 2 March 2025.

Learn more about the drawing in our Collection Online.

Visit the Garden Museum’s website.

A new exhibition at the Royal Academy, organised in partnership with Royal Collection Trust, focuses on the artistic rivalry between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in early 16th-century Florence. Both artists were commissioned to execute huge paintings in the Palazzo della Signoria (The Battle of Anghiari and The Battle of Cascina respectively), but neither were completed. Our main evidence for both projects is the sequence of preparatory drawings that the artists produced. Ten of Leonardo’s studies for the Battle of Anghiari are on loan from the Royal Collection. A drawing of Leda by Raphael is also on loan. It was probably made on a visit to Leonardo’s studio and shows his influence on the young Raphael. Until 16 February 2025. 

Take a closer look at the drawings on loan in our Collection Online. 

Visit the Royal Academy of Arts website.

In this exhibition, the contemporary Guyanese-British artist, Hew Locke, has selected objects for display through which he examines Britain’s Imperial history and relationship with other cultures. Several objects from the Royal Collection form part of this exhibition, including a painting of Queen Victoria by Franz Winterhalter, a photograph of Duleep Singh by Dr Ernst Becker together with a watercolour of Singh by Queen Victoria, and a composite photograph by John Wesley Livingstone depicting the placement of a kiosk from Lucknow at Windsor Castle. Until 09 February 2025.

See all works on loan to the British Museum in our Collection Online.

Visit the British Museum’s website.

Six of Andrea Mantegna’s monumental paintings from the series The Triumphs of Caesar – considered to be amongst the finest achievements in Italian Renaissance art – have been loaned from the Royal Collection and can now be seen in a special display at the National Gallery. Other items from the Royal Collection are on long-term loan.

Take a closer look at Mantegna's paintings in our Collection Online.

Visit the National Gallery's website.


The income from your ticket contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of The Royal Collection Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational activities.