In the pictures, the most beautiful paintings that the British royal family keeps in their homes
British Queen Elizabeth II died last week, aged 96, the longest-serving British monarch, whose reign lasted 70 years.
Queen Elizabeth II, along with the rest of the British royal family, was a prolific art collector.
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Paintings of the royal family in Great Britain
The British royal family owns the largest private art collection in the world, known as the Royal Collection Trust. The collection consists of over a million pieces and is distributed in more than ten royal residences, some of which are open to the public, the most important of which are the following:
Allegory of Peace and the Arts, 1635-1638, oil on canvas, 29 x 35 feet; For Artemisia Gentileschi
The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-1567, oil on panel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Plate shooters firing pistols ca. 1530, red chalk on paper, by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Painting of Christ and Saint Mary Magdalene in the tomb, 1638, by Rembrandt van Rijn
License plate of Pan’s Triumph, California. 1635, pen and ink, black chalk and pen on paper, Nicolas Poussin
Superficial Anatomy Panel of the Shoulder and Neck (obverse), ca. 1510, pen and ink by Leonardo da Vinci:
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