Queen Victoria (1819–1901) rarely used the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, which George IV (1762–1830) had so lavishly decorated in the Chinese and Japanese style. On her first visit, in 1837, she remarked that it was 'a strange, odd, Chinese looking place, both outside and inside'. By 1850 she had transferred much of the Pavilion's contents to Buckingham Palace, where a new East Front had been created to accommodate her growing family. This watercolour shows the Pavilion Breakfast Room, now called the Chinese Dining Room. Four Chinese porcelain vases, a painted glass lily chandelier and a spectacular marble chimneypiece were taken from the Music Room at Brighton to furnish this room. Outside, in the Principal Corridor, stood the huge porcelain pagodas commissioned by George IV.