The royal collection

After the 1917 Russian Revolution, there was a debate over what to do with the spectacular jewels that had symbolized the power and wealth of the czars. Most have remained in the Kremlin, but some can't be traced.

The man who was to become Britain’s King George IV was self-indulgent, petty, wildly extravagant, and unpopular.

Painting of the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1840.

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Christian Karl August Noack (1822-1905) executed more than one thousand portraits throughout his career, with sitters ranging from a loyal page boy (RCIN 403652) to royal patrons. Having studied at the Dusseldorf and Antwerp Academies, Noack travelled throughout France, Italy and the Netherlands producing a plethora of portraits in addition to landscapes, biblical and historical subjects. Noack eventually returned to Darmstadt where he became court painter to the Duchy of Hesse and professor…

Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937) was an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900

It was painted by artist Nicky Philipps

A national treasure almost disappeared forever.

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