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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 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.

Leonardo’s most brilliant and sustained scientific pursuit was his study of human anatomy. He made hundreds of drawings from corpses that he had dissected in monastery hospitals. One of Leonardo’s notes on this sheet compares the unborn baby to a seed
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

Thinking 3D: From Leonardo to the Present

Anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci on loan until February 2020

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna

The Genius at War in the age of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer

Two drawings by Leonardo da Vinci on loan until January 2020

Recto: plans of a castle, roughly drawn; four plots of ground showing numerous blocks of buildings, with the streets numbered; some notes. Verso: further notes. This is a preliminary study for the map of Imola, RL 12284.
Self-Portrait in a Flat Cap
Dulwich Picture Gallery

Rembrandt's Light

Two works loaned until February 2020 to illustrate Rembrandt's masterful handling of light and shade

The Morgan Library and Museum

John Singer Sargeant: Portraits in Charcoal

Portrait of Henry James lent until January 2020

Henry James
Tartan Dress
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland

Exhibition examining the romantic image of Scotland on display until November

Tate Britain, London

William Blake

Three watercolours by William Blake on loan until February 2020

The Assumption
William Anderson with two Saddle-Horses
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

George Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’

Two horse paintings by Stubbs on loan until January 2020

Museum het Prinsenhof, Delft

Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer

Two paintings by De Hooch on loan until February 2020

This is a precious record of a moment when De Hooch and Vermeer were both working in Delft evolving a distinctive style; the evidence of dated works (like this one) suggesting that De Hooch was making the running. De Hooch's reputation was certainly enhan
A mantel clock in a white porcelain serpentine roccoco style case surmounted by a veiled woman with a tamborine and putto. Below dial scrolled rocaille work with a putto to the left; flowers in relief in coloured porcelain and a second putto hiding in th
Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn

Very British: A German Point of View

Exhibition examining Anglo-German relations on display until March 2020

National Museum of Singapore

An Old New World: From the East Indies to the Founding of Singapore

Kris and scabbard on loan until March 2020

Kris and scabbard
Recto: a drawing of a round dance before a herm of Pan (or Priapus), with a nymph and satyr to the left. Verso: a very weak sketch of a Holy Family group. The verso has not been catalogued. Nicolas Poussin was the outstanding French painter of the Baro
Auckland Castle, County Durham

National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2019

Three preparatory drawings on loan until January 2020

Portsmouth Museum

Portsmouth Revisited

Two paintings and three watercolour views of the city on loan until 2020

Danckerts was a landscape painter born and trained in The Hague who had visited Italy before settling in England during the 1660s and 70s. Records show Danckerts receiving payments from the King in the 1675 and 1679, while the inventories of Charles II an
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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.