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Loans from the Royal Collection

Current loans to exhibitions from the Royal Collection

Painting being moved by art handlers

Every year hundreds of objects, including paintings, drawings and decorative arts, are generously lent by Her Majesty The Queen from the Royal Collection to institutions across the UK and abroad. 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. Find out more about current loans from the Royal Collection here.

Loan requests must be submitted in writing at least one year in advance of the opening date of the exhibition.

Detail from Raphael's The Three Graces
Royal Academy of Arts, London

The Renaissance Nude: 1400–1530

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael on loan until June

This painting is one of nine canvases known as The Triumphs of Caesar, which can be counted amongst the finest achievements in Italian Renaissance art. They were probably painted for Franceso II Gonzaga (1466-1519), who became the 4th Marquis of Mantua in
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Mantegna and Bellini

Works by Mantegna and Bellini by on loan until June

Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Canaletto and Venice

Eight Venetian works on loan until June

The view is from the Bacino towards the Molo. From the right, the Prisons, with the Ponte della Paglia between them and the Doges' Palace (the Campanile behind), the columns of S. Marco and S. Teodoro, the Libreria, the Zecca and the Granaries, with the c
King Edward VII (1841-1910), when Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
Compton Verney

Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud

Twenty-two works on loan until June

Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Intorno alla Sala delle Asse. Leonardo tra Natura Arte e Scienza

Four drawings by Leonardo da Vinci on loan until August

Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) and wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa)
The head of Leda
Galleria Nazionale, Parma
La Fortuna de 'La Scapilata' di Leonardo da Vinci
A corporal in the Scots Fusilier Guards has arrived home in the early hours of the morning after completing a tour of service fighting in the Crimean War (March 1854 - Feburary 1856). His wife and mother put down their sewing and reading to embrace him as
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne
British Painting from Turner to Whistler
Recto: Studies of human proportion. Verso: A plan and elevation of a domed church
Gallerie dell' Accademia , Venice
Leonardo da Vinci. L'uomo e modello del mondo
Recto: Six horses? heads. Verso: Mercury and Venus floating in a shell
Labirinto della Masone, Parma
Bertoja - Mirola
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

Masterpieces in Focus from the Royal Collection

Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger on loan until July

Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

Thinking 3D: From Leonardo to the Present

Anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci on loan until February 2020

The brachial plexus
The Reward of Cruelty
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

Hogath: Cruelty and Humour

Three works by Hogarth exploring his use of satire on loan from the Royal Collection

Musée de Flandre, Cassel

Festivities and Kermesses at the time of Brueghel

Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder on loan until July

A Flemish Fair
Photograph of a young boy wearing a tar hat and leaning back against a shelf on which also rests a small book. He has his right hand tucked into his trouser top and faces the viewer. The photographer O.G. Rejlander was particularly admired by Prince Al
J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Artist Photographer
The Connoisseurs: Portrait of the Artist with two Dogs
Chatsworth House
The Dog: A celebration at Chatsworth
Princess Maud of Wales seated on one of the stone oriental lion-dogs at Sandringham
The Lightbox, Woking
Women in Photography
The nine Muses were originally seen as the divine inspiration for poetry, song and dance, but gradually became the emblems for all the liberal arts. With Apollo (represented as the sun) they also symbolised the ‘harmony of the spheres’. Here T
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
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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.