Royal Collectors: Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their Art

The Arts Society North Bucks

Thursday, 12th September 2019 at 11:00 am
Lovat Hall, Silver Street Newport Pagnell MK16 0EJ

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert expressed their love for each other through art. Every birthday and Christmas they exchanged gifts of paintings, sculpture and jewellery, and they commissioned artists to record their lives together at Balmoral and Osborne House.
 
We will look not only at glamorous paintings by Landseer and Winterhalter, but also at the lesser-known watercolours the couple took pleasure in arranging in their treasured ‘souvenir albums’.
 
Dr Susan Owens is an art historian, writer and curator. She worked as a curator for the Royal Collection before becoming Curator of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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