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Painting by ground breaking artist rediscovered in a royal storage room

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24th September 2023
The Royal Collection Trust has just announced that a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi has gone on display at Windsor Castle for the first time in almost two centuries. The announcement comes at the end of a much-needed restoration work that the painting has undergone, as it was misattributed to “French School” and left in disrepair in a Hampton Court Palace storage room. The…
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Princess Anne and Family

Durrell celebrates 50 years of The Princess Royal's patronage

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19th August 2022
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is marking the 50th anniversary of The Princess Royal becoming its patron. In honour of the milestone, the Princess is expected to receive a tortoise sculpture from the much-anticipated Tortoise Takeover art trail set to open in Jersey next summer. A small number of artists have been invited to submit designs for the sculpture with the goal of…
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Luxembourg

Luxembourg's royals visit art exhibition

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29th November 2021
The Luxembourgish Grand Ducal Family closed the week by revisiting the exhibition “Viv(r)e la matière” (“Live the material”).  The exhibition spreads through the four floors of the 19Liberté building, which Grand Duke Guillaume and Grand Duchess Stéphanie officially opened back in 2016 and currently houses private banking facilities, as well as exhibition spaces. The exhibition…
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Spain

Queen Sofía of Spain awards namesake art prizes in Madrid

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16th September 2021
Queen Sofía of Spain has been a patron of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors since 1964, and on the night of Wednesday, she undertook a rare engagement to hand out the Queen Sofía Awards for Painting and Sculpture.  Her Majesty arrived at Casa de Vacas, located inside Madrid’s Parque del Buen Retiro, with the Secretary-General for Culture and Sports Víctor Francos, the…
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