Loans from the Royal Collection
Current loans to exhibitions from the Royal Collection
Every year hundreds of objects, including paintings, drawings and decorative arts, are lent from the Royal Collection to institutions across the UK and abroad for both short- and long-term display. 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.
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See a selection of current loans from the Royal Collection below.
An exhibition at the Garden Museum celebrates the lost gardens of London seen through artists’ eyes from around 1600 to the present day. It focuses on gardens that have either vanished altogether, or that have changed beyond recognition. A drawing by Wenceslaus Hollar of the seventeenth-century riverside gardens of Arundel House has been lent to the exhibition. Until 2 March 2025.
In this exhibition, the contemporary Guyanese-British artist, Hew Locke, has selected objects for display through which he examines Britain’s Imperial history and relationship with other cultures. Several objects from the Royal Collection form part of this exhibition, including a painting of Queen Victoria by Franz Winterhalter, a photograph of Duleep Singh by Dr Ernst Becker together with a watercolour of Singh by Queen Victoria, and a composite photograph by John Wesley Livingstone depicting the placement of a kiosk from Lucknow at Windsor Castle. Until 09 February 2025.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing, Designs for an equestrian monument, has been loaned to the Musée national de la Renaissance, as part of a new exhibition on equestrian portraiture in Renaissance France. Leonardo’s arrival at the French court in 1516 was a key moment in the development of this genre, as Leonardo had previously designed two equestrian monuments in Italy. The drawing on loan contains five sketches of a horse and rider, which were probably ideas for a monument to Francis I. Until 27 January 2025.
Six of Andrea Mantegna’s monumental paintings from the series The Triumphs of Caesar – considered to be amongst the finest achievements in Italian Renaissance art – have been loaned from the Royal Collection and can now be seen in a special display at the National Gallery. Other items from the Royal Collection are on long-term loan.
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This exhibition brings together over 250 luxury works of art from the 18th century, including boxes, snuffboxes, cases and other fashionable accessories. A group of seven boxes from the Royal Collection form part of this exhibition, including the 1770s Berlin-made snuff box first owned by Frederick I of Prussia. Until 24 November.
This exhibition looks at the vital role played by the horse in the history of European monarchy. This coincides with the equestrian sports of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Important works on loan include Landseer’s portrait of Queen Victoria on horseback, as well as portraits of horses presented as diplomatic gifts to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. The spectacular Alhambra Table Fountain, celebrates Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s love of horses with silver models of animals standing around the central fountain.
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