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    DIARY: VISIT / WATCH / LISTEN / TASTE

    Mar 17, 2022 4 minutes
    By Jonathan Wright, Samantha Nott and Rhiannon Davies

    VISIT

    The monarchy’s masterpieces

    Buckingham Palace is home to some truly beautiful and important paintings, including scores of artworks produced by the European Old Masters. Typically, they are displayed in the Picture Gallery, providing a striking backdrop for state visits and a high point of summer tours of the palace. Now some of those masterpieces have left London and moved to the Queens Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, for an exhibition mounted by the Royal Collection Trust.

    Works by celebrated artists such as Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Gentileschi all feature. Highlights include Rembrandt’s luminous portrait of painted in 1641, and Gentileschi’s iconic self-portrait, likely produced when she was visiting England during the reign of

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