George IV’s Tastes in Dutch Art on Show in Edinburgh, Scotland

EDINBURGH.- The French Revolution of 1789 and the Napoleonic wars opened up a massive European art market, and some of the British royal purchases of the time are featured in a new exhibition of Dutch landscape and marine paintings in Edinburgh. The exhibition of 42 works by 17th century Dutch artists from the royal collection runs at the Queen’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse from Thursday through to January 9 2011. Desmond Shawe-Taylor, surveyor of the Queen’s pictures who [...]