{"id":679970,"date":"2026-07-08T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:49:09","slug":"buckingham-palaces-picture-gallery-doubles-number-of-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679970\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace&#8217;s Picture Gallery doubles number of paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors to Buckingham Palace this summer will be able to see almost twice as many paintings in the Picture Gallery following a redisplay of the Royal Collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Picture Gallery, one of the State Rooms open to members of the public during the summer months, now displays 120 paintings, up from 63.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The transformation took 875 hours and included the installation of emerald-green silk wall hangings and new lighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anna Reynolds, surveyor of the King&#8217;s pictures, said: &#8220;This rehang is an exciting and rare opportunity to significantly increase the number of world-class paintings on display for visitors, in line with our charitable aim to share as much of the Royal Collection as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors to Buckingham Palace this summer will be able to see almost twice as many paintings in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}