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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.

Two grotesque profiles confronted
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Leonardo da Vinci

Twenty-two drawings on loan until January 2019

Galleria Sabauda Musei Reali, Turin

Van Dyck. Court Painter

Portrait by Van Dyck on loan until March 2019

The Three Eldest Children of Charles I
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 2019

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

80 Years’ War. The Birth of the Netherlands

Painting by David Teniers on loan until January 2019

Military subjects were popular on either side of the frontier during the Eighty Years War (1568-1648). The most common image of the soldier’s life was the guard-room scene, a glamorous version of the tavern scene, where soldiers smoke, drink and pla
Andrea Odoni
National Gallery, London

Lorenzo Lotto Portraits

Portrait by Lorenzo Lotto on loan until February 2019

Garden Museum, London

Repton Revived

Humphry Repton's designs for Brighton Pavilion on loan until February 2019

Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton: 'The General View from the Pavillon'
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
David kills Goliath
National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Chiaroscuro Woodcuts in Renaissance Italy
Studies for an equestrian monument
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Leonardo and the Budapest Horse and Rider
Caddinet
Frick Collection, New York
Luigi Valadier
Kennel Club Gallery, London

Promoting the Pedigree through Photography: Thomas Fall

Photographs by Thomas Fall on loan until March 2019

Holburne Museum of Art, Bath

Gainsborough and the Theatre

Portrait by Gainsborough on loan until January 2019

Mrs. Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
The head of St James in the Last Supper
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Last Supper

Ten drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and his followers on loan until January 2019

J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Renaissance Nude: 1400–1530

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael on loan until January 2019

Detail from Raphael's The Three Graces
Michael Alphonsus Shen Fu-Tsung (d. 1691), 'The Chinese Convert'
University of Oxford China Centre
Shen Fuzong: The First Chinese Visitor to Oxford
A man from behind
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Tintoretto 1519-1594
A drawing of three figures including a young woman in the centre, an old woman whispering to her on the right and a man in a plumed hat offering a bag of money on the left. Piazzetta’s paintings and drawings, sombre in tone and of an insistent largen
Grand Palais, Paris
Magnificent Venice
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.