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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 Sea Triumph of Charles II
Tate Britain, London

British Baroque: Power and Illusion

Works on loan until April to an exhibition exploring the Baroque style

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter

By Royal Appointment

Works on loan until May to an exhibition celebrating the Devon lace industry

Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome

Raffaello

Seventeen drawings on loan until June

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes
Henry James
National Portrait Gallery, Washington

John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal

Portrait by Sargent on loan until May

National Gallery, London

Nicolas Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age

Painting by Maes on loan until May

The listening Housewife
Charles William, Baron von Humboldt (1767-1835)
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt

Portrait of Wilhelm von Humboldt on loan until April

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Rembrandt and Amsterdam portraiture, 1590-1670

Two portrait paintings on loan until May

In the period 1655-75 Dutch painters transformed the depiction of middle-class interiors and courtyards, whether in group portraits and genre paintings. Various aspects of this transformation can be seen this painting. The Family Group by Barent Graat was
Cicely Heron (b.1507)
Foundling Museum, London

Portraying Pregnancy

Two works on loan until April exploring pregnancy through portraiture

Garden Museum, London

Play, Protest and Pelicans: A People’s History of London’s Royal Parks

Painting on loan until February to explore the history of London's royal parks

St James’s Park was laid out by Charles II in the formal French style with avenues of trees and a long rectangular canal. This scene is viewed looking back towards Whitehall Palace down the oblique avenue of trees. Westminster Abbey is visible in th
A hand-coloured print satirising the scandal involving the Prince of Wales's race horse 'Escape' which was involved with rigging racing odds. 'Escape' has both of its legs bound by the motto of the Order of the Garter as a reference to its losing a race o
National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art
King George IV: Royalty, Racing and Reputation
Kris and scabbard
National Museum of Singapore
An Old New World: From the East Indies to the Founding of Singapore
Venus inducing Helen to fall in love with Paris
The Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
Angelica Kauffman
An old Woman called 'The Artist's Mother'
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Young Rembrandt
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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.