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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.

<p>A red chalk drawing of a group of archers without bows shooting arrows at a target hung on a herm to the right. Amor sleeps on the ground, at lower right; to the left, other putti blow on a fire. On the verso, inscribed in pen and ink by a later hand:
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth

Drawings by Michelangelo on loan until March

National Portrait Gallery, London

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

Miniatures on loan until May

Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
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

Kennel Club Gallery, London

Promoting the Pedigree through Photography: Thomas Fall

Photographs by Fall on loan until March

The Princess of Wales with Alex, a Borzoi
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

Paintings by Frank Holl and Sir Joseph Noel Paton on loan until June

Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Canaletto and Venice

Paintings and drawings by Canaletto 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
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
A study of a woman's hands
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo
Princess Maud of Wales seated on one of the stone oriental lion-dogs at Sandringham
The Lightbox, Woking
Women in Photography
The Bowes Museum
SOLD! The Great British Antiques Story
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

Royal Academy of Arts, London

The Renaissance Nude: 1400–1530

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

Detail from Raphael's The Three Graces
The Great Exhibition: India No.2
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

The Lie of the Land

Watercolours by John Nash of The Great Exhibition on loan until May

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
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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.