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The Royal Collection is the art collection of the British Royal Family
British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
. It is property of the monarch as sovereign
Sovereign

Sovereign may refer to:*Sovereignty, a philosophical concept or state*Sovereign *Sovereign Hill, Victoria, Australia*Lady Sovereign, a female MC and performing artist for Def Jam Recordings...
, but is held in trust for her successors and the nation. It contains over 7,000 paintings, 40,000 watercolours and drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
s, and about 150,000 old master print
Old master print

An old master print is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition . A date of about 1830 is usually taken as marking the end of the period whose prints are covered by this term....
s, as well as tapestries, furniture, ceramics, books, and other works of art. It is physically dispersed between a number of locations some, like Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a former English royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London. The palace is located south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames....
 open to the public and not lived in by the Royal Family, whilst others like Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Berkshire in the England county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William I of England, is the oldest in continuous occupation....
 are both residences and open to the public.






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The Royal Collection is the art collection of the British Royal Family
British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
. It is property of the monarch as sovereign
Sovereign

Sovereign may refer to:*Sovereignty, a philosophical concept or state*Sovereign *Sovereign Hill, Victoria, Australia*Lady Sovereign, a female MC and performing artist for Def Jam Recordings...
, but is held in trust for her successors and the nation. It contains over 7,000 paintings, 40,000 watercolours and drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
s, and about 150,000 old master print
Old master print

An old master print is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition . A date of about 1830 is usually taken as marking the end of the period whose prints are covered by this term....
s, as well as tapestries, furniture, ceramics, books, and other works of art. It is physically dispersed between a number of locations some, like Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a former English royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London. The palace is located south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames....
 open to the public and not lived in by the Royal Family, whilst others like Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Berkshire in the England county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William I of England, is the oldest in continuous occupation....
 are both residences and open to the public. The Queen's Gallery
Queen's Gallery

The Queen's Gallery is a public art gallery located at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarchy, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection Department on a rotating basis; about 450 works are on display at any one time....
 at Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
 in London exists to show displays and exhibitions from the collection for several months at a time. There is also a Queen's Gallery
Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh

The Queen's Gallery is an art gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. It forms part of the Palace of Holyroodhouse complex. It was opened in 2002 by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and exhibits works from the Royal Collection....
 next to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
. Its total value has been estimated at least £10 billion.

History

Few items survive from before King Henry VIII. The most important additions to the collection were made by Charles I, a passionate collector of Italian paintings, and a major patron of Van Dyck and other artists. His collection was sold after his execution in 1649, but large numbers of works were recovered for the collection after the Restoration
English Restoration

The English Restoration, or simply The Restoration began in 1660 when the English monarchy, Scottish monarchy and Irish monarchy were restored under Charles II of England after the Interregnum that followed the English Civil War....
 of 1660, when the Dutch Republic
Dutch Republic

The Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was a European republic between 1581 and 1795, in about the same location as the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is the successor state....
 also presented Charles II with the Dutch Gift
Dutch Gift

The Dutch Gift of 1660 was a collection of 28 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings and 12 classical sculptures, along with a yacht, HMY Mary, and furniture, which was presented to King Charles II of England by the States-General of the Netherlands in 1660....
, and Charles later bought many paintings and other works. George III
George III of the United Kingdom

George III was Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death....
 with the assistance of Frederick Augusta Barnard, added very large numbers, especially of prints and drawings, and Queen Victoria and her husband Albert were keen collectors of contemporary and old master
Old Master

"Old Master" is a term for a European painting of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such a painter. An "old master print" is an original printmaking made by an artist in the same period....
 paintings. Many works have been given from the collection to museums, especially by George III and Victoria and Albert.

Collection highlights


Paintings, prints and drawings


Canaletto Return of the Bucentoro To the Molo On Ascension Day, 1732
Anglo-American
  • Benjamin West
    Benjamin West

    Benjamin West Royal Academy was an England-United States Painting of historical scenes around and after the time of the American Revolution. He was the second president of the Royal Academy serving from 1792 to 1805 and 1806 to 1820....
     - 60 paintings;


Dutch school (200+ works)
  • Gerard ter Borch
    Gerard ter Borch

    Gerard ter Borch was a Dutch Republic genre painting Painting, who lived in the Dutch Golden Age....
     - 2 paintings;
  • Aelbert Cuyp
    Aelbert Cuyp

    Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Netherlands landscape painting Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz....
     - 7 paintings;
  • Gerrit Dou - 4 paintings;
  • Frans Hals
    Frans Hals

    Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for Portrait painting. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art....
     - 1 painting;
  • Meyndert Hobbema - 2 paintings;
  • Pieter de Hooch
    Pieter de Hooch

    Pieter de Hooch was a Genre works during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a contemporary of Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, with whom his work shared themes and style....
     - 3 paintings;
  • Gabriel Metsu
    Gabriel Metsu

    Gabriel Metsu , the Netherlands Painting, was the son of the Flemish painter Jacques Metsu , who lived most of his days at Leiden, where he was three times married....
     - 1 painting;
  • Daniël Mijtens
    Daniël Mijtens

    Dani?l Mijtens , known in England as Daniel Mytens the Elder, was a Netherlands portrait painter who spent the central years of his career working in England....
     - 9 paintings;
  • Adriaen van Ostade
    Adriaen van Ostade

    Adriaen van Ostade was a Netherlands Genre works painter....
     - 5 paintings;
  • Rembrandt
    Rembrandt

    Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Netherlands Painting and etching. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in History of the Netherlands....
     - 6 paintings;
  • Salomon van Ruysdael - 1 painting;
  • Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael
    Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael

    Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a the Netherlands landscape art painter....
     - 1 painting;
  • Steen, Jan
    Jan Steen

    Jan Havickszoon Steen was a The Netherlands Genre works Painting of the 17th century . Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his trade....
     - 7 paintings;
  • Adriaen van de Velde - 4 paintings;
  • Willem van de Velde the Younger
    Willem van de Velde the Younger

    Willem van de Velde the Younger , was a The Netherlands painter.A son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, also a painter of sea-pieces, Willem van de Velde, the younger, was instructed by his father, and afterwards by Simon de Vlieger, a marine painter of repute at the time, and had achieved great celebrity by his art before he came to Londo...
     - 7 paintings;
  • Johannes Vermeer
    Johannes Vermeer

    Johannes or Jan Vermeer was a Dutch people Baroque painting painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life....
     - 1 painting (see image);
  • Jan Weenix
    Jan Weenix

    Jan Weenix was a the Netherlands painter. He was trained by his father, Jan Baptist Weenix, together with his cousin Melchior d'Hondecoeter....
     - 1 painting;
  • Philip Wouwerman
    Philip Wouwerman

    Philips Wouwerman , was a Netherlands Painting of hunting, landscape and battle scenes.He was first taught by his father, Paul Joosten Wouwerman, an historical painter of moderate ability....
     - 5 paintings;


English school
  • William Beechey
    William Beechey

    Sir Henry William Beechey , England portrait-painter, was born at Burford, the son of William Beechey and Hannah Read .He was originally meant for a conveyancer, but a strong love for painting induced him to become a pupil at the Royal Academy in 1772....
     - 17 paintings;
  • Thomas Gainsborough
    Thomas Gainsborough

    Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most famous portrait and landscape Painting of 18th century Kingdom of Great Britain....
     - more than 30 paintings, includeing a rare mythological work,
    Diana and Actaeon
    Diana and Actaeon

    Diana and Actaeon refers to the myth in which the mortal Actaeon unwittingly sees the goddess Diana naked, and is punished for it. It may refer to:...
    ;
  • William Hogarth
    William Hogarth

    William Hogarth was a major England painting, Printmaking, pictorial satire, Social criticism and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art....
     - 3 paintings;
  • John Hoppner
    John Hoppner

    John Hoppner , England portrait-Painting, was born in Whitechapel.His father was of Germany extraction, and his mother was one of the German attendants at the royal palace....
     - 7 paintings;
  • Sir Godfrey Kneller - 15 paintings;
  • Edwin Henry Landseer
    Edwin Henry Landseer

    Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Royal Academy was an English art, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are sculptures: the lions in Trafalgar Square, London....
     - 100 paintings and drawings;
  • Thomas Lawrence
    Thomas Lawrence (painter)

    Sir Thomas Lawrence Royal Academy , was a notable England Painting, mostly of portraits.He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Lawrence was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim sp...
     - 50 paintings;
  • Peter Lely
    Peter Lely

    Sir Peter Lely was a painter of Netherlands origin. He was the most popular portrait artist in England from soon after he arrived in the country in the 1640s to his death....
     - 20 paintings;
  • Joshua Reynolds
    Joshua Reynolds

    Sir Joshua Reynolds Royal Academy Royal Society Royal Society of Arts was an important and influential 18th century English Painting, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect....
     - 20+ paintings;
  • George Stubbs
    George Stubbs

    George Stubbs was a Kingdom of Great Britain Painting, best known for his paintings of horses....
     - 18 paintings;


Flemish school
  • Jan Brueghel the Elder
    Jan Brueghel the Elder

    Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemings Painting, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. Nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel, of which the latter two were derived from favored subjects, while the former may refer to the velveteen sheen of his colors or to his habit of wearin...
     - 1 painting;
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder - 1 painting;
  • Frans Francken the Younger
    Francken

    In the Francken family of Antwerp in the 16th and 17th centuries were 11 painters. Many bore the same Christian name in succession. Hence there is confusion in the classification of paintings not differing widely in style or execution....
     - 1 painting;
  • Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
    Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

    Marcus Gheeraerts was an artist of the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Hans Eworth and Anthony Van Dyck" He was brought to England as a child by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, also a Painting....
     - 1 painting;
  • Jan Mabuse
    Jan Mabuse

    Jan Mabuse was the name adopted by the Flemings painter Jan Gossaert; or Jennyn van Hennegouwe , as he called himself when he matriculated in the guild of St Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503....
     - 1 painting;
  • Quentin Matsys
    Quentin Matsys

    Quentin Matsys was a painter in the Flemish tradition and a founder of the Antwerp school. He was born at Leuven, where he was trained as an ironsmith....
     - 1 painting;
  • Hans Memling
    Hans Memling

    Hans Memling was an Early Netherlandish painting, born in Seligenstadt/Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Low Countries, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little innovation....
     - 1 painting'
  • Peter Paul Rubens
    Peter Paul Rubens

    Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality....
     - 13 paintings, 5 drawings (see image);
  • David Teniers the Younger
    David Teniers the Younger

    David Teniers the Younger , a Flemings artist born in Antwerp, was the more celebrated son of David Teniers the Elder, almost ranking in celebrity with Peter Paul Rubens and Van Dyck....
     - 27 paintings;
  • Anthony van Dyck
    Anthony van Dyck

    Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque painting who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English school of painting for the next 150 years....
     - 26 paintings;


French school
  • François Clouet
    François Clouet

    File:Dame_au_bain_Francois_Clouet_end_of_16th_century.jpgFran?ois Clouet son of Jean Clouet, was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, particularly known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family....
     - 3 paintings;
  • Gaspard Dughet
    Gaspard Dughet

    Gaspard Dughet was a French Painting.The adoptive son of Nicolas Poussin, he was actually the brother of Poussin's wife. He devoted himself to Landscape art painting and rendered admirably the severer beauties of the Roman Campagna; a noteworthy series of works in tempera representing various sites near Rome is to be seen in the Colonna P...
     - 3 paintings;
  • Claude Lorrain
    Claude Lorrain

    Claude Lorrain was an artist of the Baroque Painting era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting....
     - 5 paintings;
  • Jean-Étienne Liotard
    Jean-Étienne Liotard

    Jean-?tienne Liotard was a Swiss-French Painting. His father was a jeweller who fled to Switzerland after 1685.He began his studies under Professor Gardelle and Petitot, whose Vitreous enamels and miniatures he copied with considerable skill....
     - 16 paintings;
  • Claude Monet
    Claude Monet

    Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet was a founder of French impressionism painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting....
     - 1 painting;
  • Nicolas Poussin
    Nicolas Poussin

    Nicolas Poussin was a French Painting in the Classicism style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color....
     - A large collection of his drawings at Windsor
    Windsor Castle

    Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Berkshire in the England county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William I of England, is the oldest in continuous occupation....
    , second only to that in the Musée du Louvre
    Louvre

    The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
    ;
  • Georges de la Tour
    Georges de La Tour

    Georges de La Tour was a Painting, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which became part of France the year before his death....
     - 1 painting;


German school
  • Albrecht Dürer
    Albrecht Dürer

    'Albrecht D?rer' was a Germans Painting, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, commons:Image:Duerer - Ritter, Tod und Teufel .jpg , St....
     - 1 painting;
  • Hans Holbein the Younger
    Hans Holbein the Younger

    Hans Holbein the Younger was a Germans artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century....
     - 7 paintings, 80 drawings and 5 miniatures;
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder
    Lucas Cranach the Elder

    Lucas Cranach the Elder was a Germany Painting and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father....
     - 4 paintings;
  • Franz Xaver Winterhalter - 120 paintings, 20 drawings & watercolours;
  • Johann Zoffany
    Johann Zoffany

    Johann Zoffany, Zoffani or Zauffelij was a German Neoclassicism painter, active mainly in England. His works appear in many prominent British national galleries such as the National Gallery, London and the Tate Gallery....
     - 17 paintings;


Italian school
  • Alessandro Allori
    Alessandro Allori

    Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori was an Italy portrait Painting of the late Mannerism Florence school.Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his 'uncle', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes ass...
     - 1 painting;
  • Fra Angelico
    Fra Angelico

    Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"....
     - 1 painting;
  • Jacopo Bassano
    Jacopo Bassano

    Jacopo Bassano was an Republic of Venice painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name.His father Francesco Bassano the Elder was a "peasant artist" and Jacopo adopted some of his style as he created religious paintings with novel features including animals, farmhouses, and landscapes....
     - 4 paintings;
  • Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini

    Giovanni Bellini was an Italy Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venice painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna....
     - 1 painting;
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
    Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was a pre-eminent Baroque sculpture and architect of 17th Century Rome....
     - 50 drawings;
  • Francesco Borromini
    Francesco Borromini

    Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli was a prominent and influential Italy Swiss born Baroque architect in Rome....
     - 100 drawings;
  • Bronzino - 1 painting;
  • Canaletto
    Canaletto

    Giovanni Antonio Canal , better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching....
     - Over 50 paintings and 140 drawings, the greatest collection in the world;
  • Luca Carlevaris - 4 paintings;
  • Caravaggio
    Caravaggio

    Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an Italian people artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, considered the first great representative of the Baroque school of painting....
     - 2 paintings;
  • Agostino
    Agostino Carracci

    Agostino Carracci was an Italy Painting and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale Carracci and cousin of Lodovico Carracci....
    , Annibale
    Annibale Carracci

    Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque Painting....
     and Ludovico Carracci
    Ludovico Carracci

    Ludovico Carracci was an Italy, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna.Ludovico himself apprenticed under Prospero Fontana in Bologna and traveled to Florence, Parma, and Venice, before returning to his hometown....
     - 5 paintings, more than 350 drawings;
  • Polidoro da Caravaggio - 9 paintings;
  • Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
    Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

    Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione , was an Italy Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoa school. He is best known now for his elaborate engravings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping....
     - 260 drawings;
  • Correggio
    Antonio da Correggio

    Antonio Allegri da Correggio was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italy Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century....
     - 2 paintings;
  • Bernardo Daddi
    Bernardo Daddi

    Bernardo Daddi was an early Italy renaissance painter and apprentice of Giotto di Bondone. He was also influenced by the Sienese art of Lorenzetti....
     - 1 painting;
  • Domenichino - 1 painting, as well as 1,700 drawings in thirty-four albums, the Royal Collection’s largest holdings by a single artist;
  • Duccio
    Duccio

    Duccio di Buoninsegna was one of the most influential Italian art of his time. Born in Siena, Tuscany, he worked mostly with pigment and egg tempera and like most of his contemporaries he painted religious subject matters....
     - 1 painting;
  • Gentile da Fabriano
    Gentile da Fabriano

    Gentile da Fabriano was an Italy painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style.Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche....
     - 1 painting;
  • Domenico Fetti
    Domenico Fetti

    Domenico Fetti was an Italy Baroque painter active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice....
     - 5 paintings;
  • Raffaellino del Garbo
    Raffaellino del Garbo

    Raffaellino del Garbo was a Florence painter of the early-Renaissance.His real name was Raffaello Capponi; Del Garbo was a nickname, bestowed upon him seemingly from the graceful nicety of his earlier works....
     - 1 painting;
  • Lattanzio Gambara
    Lattanzio Gambara

    Lattanzio Gambara was an Italy painter, active in a Renaissance and Mannerism styles....
     - 8 paintings;
  • Luca Giordano
    Luca Giordano

    Luca Giordano was an Italy late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching....
     - 12 paintings;
  • Guercino - 1 painting, and largest group of Guercino drawings in the world, some 400 sheets, as well as 200 by his assistants and 200 other works;
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
     - 600 drawings, finest collection of Da Vinci drawings in the world;
  • Pietro Longhi
    Pietro Longhi

    Pietro Longhi was a Venice Painting of contemporary scenes of life....
     - 2 paintings;
  • Lorenzo Lotto
    Lorenzo Lotto

    Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italy Painting draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits....
     - 1 painting;
  • Andrea Mantegna
    Andrea Mantegna

    Andrea Mantegna was a Venetian Renaissance artist, a student of Ancient Rome archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with Perspective , e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality....
     - 9 canvases known as
    The Triumphs of Caesar
    Triumphs of Caesar

    The Triumphs of Caesar are a series of paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. The sequence of nine paintings depicts the Roman triumph of Julius Caesar....
  • Michelangelo
    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
     - 20 drawings;
  • Parmigianino
    Parmigianino

    Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was a prominent Italy Mannerism Painting and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma....
     - 2 paintings and 30 drawings
  • Pietro Perugino
    Pietro Perugino

    Pietro Perugino was the leading Painting of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance....
     - 1 painting;
  • Francesco Pesellino
    Francesco Pesellino

    Francesco Pesellino , also known as Francesco di Stefano, Il Pesellino, Francesco Peselli, and Francesco di Stefano Pesellino was an Italian painter....
     - 1 painting;
  • Raphael
    Raphael

    Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
     - 8 Paintings, as well as an extensive collection of drawings.
    There are seven full-size cartoons for the tapestries designed to hang in the Sistine Chapel
    Sistine Chapel

    Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. Its fame rests on its architecture, evocative of Solomon's Temple of the Old Testament and on its decoration which has been frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and...
    . During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Raphael attained the zenith of his reputation. Consequently, the Raphael Cartoons
    Raphael Cartoons

    The Raphael Cartoons are seven large cartoons for tapestry, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, painted by the High Renaissance painter Raffaello Santi in 1515-16 and showing scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles....
     have become some of the most famous, and widely imitated, paintings in the world. Since 1865 they have been on loan from the Royal Collection to the V&A.;
  • Raffaellino del Garbo
    Raffaellino del Garbo

    Raffaellino del Garbo was a Florence painter of the early-Renaissance.His real name was Raffaello Capponi; Del Garbo was a nickname, bestowed upon him seemingly from the graceful nicety of his earlier works....
     - 1 painting;
  • Guido Reni
    Guido Reni

    Guido Reni was a prominent Italy Painting of high-Baroque style....
     - 1 painting;
  • Sebastiano Ricci
    Sebastiano Ricci

    Sebastiano Ricci was an Italy painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Pietro da Cortona style of grand manner fresco painting....
     - 9 paintings;
  • Giulio Romano
    Giulio Romano

    Giulio Romano was an Italy Painting and Architecture. A prominent pupil of Raffaello Santi, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism....
     - 6 paintings;
  • Andrea Sacchi
    Andrea Sacchi

    Andrea Sacchi was an Italy Painting of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors Alessandro Algardi and Fran?ois Duquesnoy, and the contemporary biographer Giovanni Bellori....
     - 130 drawings;
  • Andrea del Sarto
    Andrea del Sarto

    Andrea del Sarto was an Italy painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early-Mannerism. Though highly regarded by his contemporaries as an artist "senza errori" , he is overshadowed now by equally talented contemporaries like Raphael....
     - 2 paintings;
  • Zanobi Strozzi - 1 painting;
  • Tintoretto
    Tintoretto

    Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art....
     - 5 paintings;
  • Titian
    Titian

    File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
     - 4 paintings;
  • Perin del Vaga
    Perin del Vaga

    Perino del Vaga or Perin del Vaga, nickname of Piero Buonaccorsi , was an Italy painter of the Late Renaissance/Mannerism....
     - 2 paintings;
  • Giorgio Vasari
    Giorgio Vasari

    Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing....
     - 1 painting;
  • Palma the Elder - 2 paintings;
  • Paolo Veronese
    Paolo Veronese

    Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi....
     - 3 paintings;
  • Antonio Verrio
    Antonio Verrio

    Antonio Verrio was an Italy painter of the Baroque period, active in England....
     - 1 painting;
  • Federico Zuccari
    Federico Zuccari

    Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italy Mannerism Painting and architect, active both in Italy and abroad....
     - 1 painting;
  • Francesco Zuccarelli
    Francesco Zuccarelli

    Francesco Zuccarelli was an Italy Rococo Painting.He was born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, where he initially apprenticed with Paolo Anesi....
     - 27 paintings, together with 8 works collaborated with Antonio Visentini
    Antonio Visentini

    Antonio Visentini was an Italian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies and capricci, the author of treatises on perspective and professor at the Venetian Academy....
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Furniture

  • André-Charles Boulle - Several examples
  • Jean Henri Riesener
    Jean Henri Riesener

    Jean-Henri Riesener , born in Gladbeck near Essen in Germany, moved to Paris where he apprenticed soon after 1754 with Jean-Fran?ois Oeben, whose widow he married, and was received master ?b?niste in January 1768....
     - Roll-Top Desk
  • Adam Weisweiler
    Adam Weisweiler

    Adam Weisweiler was a French people master cabinetmaker in the Louis XVI of France period.Weisweiler specialised in small refined pieces, with the fine lines, and often decorated pieces of furniture lacquers and porcelains, pedestal tables, worktables and consoles....
     - Pietra Dura
    Pietra dura

    Pietre dure is an art-historical term for the technique of using small, exquisitely cut and fitted, highly-polished colored stones to create what amounts to a painting in stone....
     commode as well as other pieces

Decorative arts

  • Fabergé - One of the finest collections in the world;
  • Sèvres
    Sèvres

    S?vres is a Communes of France in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.9 km from the Kilometre Zero.The town is known for its porcelain manufacture, the Manufacture nationale de S?vres, making the famous S?vres porcelain, as well as being the location of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures,...
     Porcelain - Arguably the world's largest collection;
  • Chelsea porcelain
    Chelsea porcelain factory

    [Image:Chelseaporc.jpg|thumb|Dogs, about 1749, Chelsea Porcelain factory The Chelsea porcelain manufactory is the first important porcelain manufactory in England; its earliest soft-paste porcelain, aimed at the aristocratic market—cream jugs in the form of two seated goats—are dated 1745....
     - Complete service completed 1763
  • Gobelins Tapestry
    Gobelins manufactory

    The Manufacture des Gobelins is a tapestry factory located in Paris, France, at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near the Les Gobelins Paris M?tro station in the XIIIe arrondissement....
     - Sets of: 28 Don Quixote Tapestries, Jason and the Golden Fleece & Les Amours des Dieux

Sculpture

  • Canova - 3 works: Mars and Venus, Dirce & Fountain Nymph
  • John Gibson
    John Gibson (sculptor)

    John Gibson, was a Wales sculpture....
     - Queen Victoria
  • Ancient Roman - Crouching Venus
    Crouching Venus

    [Image:Lely Venus BM 1963.jpg|thumb|The Lely Venus once belonged to the painter Sir Peter Lely The Crouching Venus is a Hellenistic art model of Venus surprised at her bath....

Management

The Royal Collection Department is part of the Royal Household
Royal Households of the United Kingdom

The royal Households of the United Kingdom are the organised offices and support systems for the British Royal Family, along with their immediate families....
, responsible for the cataloguing, conservation, cleaning, restoration and display of the books, pictures, sculptures and other works of art collected by the British Royal Family
British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
. Buildings do not come under its remit.

Galleries


Paintings

Dutch paintings

English paintings

Flemish paintings

French paintings

German paintings

Italian paintings

See also

  • Charles I of England
    Charles I of England

    Charles I was List of English monarchs, List of monarchs of Scotland and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his capital punishment on 30 January 1649....
  • Windsor Castle
    Windsor Castle

    Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Berkshire in the England county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William I of England, is the oldest in continuous occupation....
  • Buckingham Palace
    Buckingham Palace

    Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....


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