The two-year-long exhibition will feature 65 masterpieces at the Queen's Gallery in Buckingham Palace starting from December 4, 2020
While Buckingham Palace is undergoing a £369 million refurbishment, multiple paintings from the Royal Collection that usually hang in the Picture Gallery will be brought together in a gallery exhibition for the first time.
The two-year-long exhibition will feature 65 masterpieces by Italian, Dutch and Flemish Old Masters such as Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, van Dyck and Canaletto, most of which were acquired by George IV in the early 19th century.
George IV notably commissioned British architect John Nash to transform Buckingham Palace into the principal royal residence in the 1820s. Part of the scheme was the creation of a picture gallery to show off the monarch's art collection.
Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace will highlight the artists' masterly use of paint, as seen in Rubens' Self-Portrait, Frans Hals' Portrait of a Man and Cristofano Allori's Head of Holofernes.