Queen's Gallery

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Main entrance to the Queen's Gallery in November 2012

The Queen's Gallery is a public art gallery in Buckingham Palace , England, UK.

history

It was opened in 1962 and is located on the site of a former chapel from 1843, which was destroyed by a German bomb on September 13, 1940. In 2002 the gallery was renovated and reopened on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the throne . The architects John Simpson & Partners submitted the design selected in a competition in 1997.

Exhibits

Works from the Royal Collection are shown in the gallery , for example in 1968 the works of Anthonis van Dyck . Paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Canaletto hang there. The gallery can be visited daily.

Special exhibitions

  • 2014: The First Georgians . Catalog.
  • 2019: Leonardo da Vinci. A Life in Drawing. Curated by Martin Clayton. May 24th to October 13th, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. This is what England learned from Hanover Online in FAZ from April 15, 2014, page 11
  2. Laura Cumming: Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing review - lines of beauty The Guardian, May 26, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 3 ″  N , 0 ° 8 ′ 31 ″  W.