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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.

A study of the head of St Anne, turned three quarters to the right and inclined slightly downwards
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Leonardo da Vinci

Twenty four drawings by Leonardo on loan until February 2020

Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt

Portrait of Wilhelm von Humboldt on loan until April 2020

Charles William, Baron von Humboldt (1767-1835)
John, Prince of Portugal (1537-54)
Royal Palace of Madrid

The Other Court

Portrait of John, Prince of Portugal on loan until March 2020

Garden Museum, London

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

Painting on loan until February 2020 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
Windsor Castle from the North East
National Gallery in Prague

Wenceslaus Hollar and the Art of Drawing

Four pen and ink drawings and one etching by Hollar on loan until February 2020

British Museum, London

Troy: Myth and Reality

Exhibition exploring the myth of the Trojan Wars until March 2020

A drawing of the head and shoulders of a female dressed as Helen of Troy in a red robe and wearing a gold circlet and jewellery. Signed in monogram and dated.<br> <br>There is an earlier version, in oils, of this watercolour in the Art Gallery o
The overture to the ball in the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles
Château de Versailles

Versailles Revival 1867–1937

Four watercolours on loan until March 2020

Tate Britain, London

William Blake

Three watercolours by William Blake on loan until February 2020

The Assumption
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
Kris and scabbard
National Museum of Singapore
An Old New World: From the East Indies to the Founding of Singapore
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
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
Portsmouth Museum
Portsmouth Revisited
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

Major loan of over twenty works on display until April 2020

Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Hans Baldung Grien

Portrait by Baldung on loan until March 2020

Portrait of a Young Man with a Rosary
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
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.
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
Cleopatra with the Asp
Bowes Museum

The Power and the Virtue: Guido Reni's Death of Lucretia

Painting by Guido Reni on loan until January 2020

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Van Dyck

Painting by Anthony Van Dyck on loan until February 2020

Christ Healing the Paralytic
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