Queen's Gallery
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
- Profile of the gallery from royal.gov.uk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is what England learned from Hanover Online in FAZ from April 15, 2014, page 11
- ↑ 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.