Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German artist best known for his airy, idealized portraits of European royalty that were influenced by the Rococo and Neoclassical painting. Over the course of his ...

Think of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s painting of the Empress Eugenie of France, portraits of a staunch Queen Victoria or Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in a velvet number seemingly knocked-up ...

The exhibition charts the evolution of royal portrait photography from the 1920s to the present day through more than 150 items from the Royal Collection and Royal Archives.