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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.

The Three Eldest Children of Charles I
Galleria Sabauda Musei Reali, Turin

Van Dyck. Court Painter

Portrait by Van Dyck on loan until March

Kennel Club Gallery, London

Promoting the Pedigree through Photography: Thomas Fall

Photographs by Thomas Fall on loan until March
Andrea Odoni
National Gallery, London

Lorenzo Lotto Portraits

Portrait by Lorenzo Lotto on loan until February

Garden Museum, London

Repton Revived

Humphry Repton's designs for Brighton Pavilion on loan until February

Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton: 'The General View from the Pavillon'
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
National Gallery, London

Mantegna and Bellini

Paintings and drawings on loan until January

J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Renaissance Nude: 1400–1530

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

Detail from Raphael's The Three Graces
National Gallery, London
Landseer's The Monarch of the Glen
Caddinet
Frick Collection, New York
Luigi Valadier
DM 3136: the Royal Party in the Galerie. Behind the Queen and Louis-Philippe can be seen the duchesse d'Orleans with her elder son, the Queen of the Belgians, Mme Adélaide, Queen Marie-Amélie, Prince Albert etc. Signed and dated.
Château de Versailles
Louis Philippe and Versailles
Full leather bound in vellum<br> <br>Queen Mary's Dolls' House was a gift to Queen Mary from the nation; a showcase for contemporary craft and design, it preserved for history the ideal home of the 1920s, at a scale of one foot to one inch. Princess Marie
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
The drawing is probably a study for Leonardo’s unfinished painting of the Adoration of the Magi, now in the Uffizi, Florence. For the crowded composition Leonardo made many drawings of animals: oxen, asses, horses, and even a camel. This study demonstra
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci
Head and shoulders portrait of a man, seen frontally, the head slightly inclined to the left, looking at the spectator. He has greying hair cut at the level of the ears, with a fringe. This is a picture of exceptional quality, strong in form and charac
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Jacopo Tintoretto and the Portrait Study
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
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Oscar G Rejlander: Artist Photographer
A gilt-bronze wall hung clock, the striking movement with a single steel hand, in a square tabernacle case, the top pierced with foliage and scrolls containing the bell, surmounted by a leopard holding a shield with the Royal coat of arms and Garter; the
Strawberry Hill House & Garden, Twickenham
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill
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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.