Room 11

This elegant young woman is Christina of Denmark, the youngest daughter of King Christian of Denmark. In 1538, King Henry VIII of England was looking for a fourth wife, after the death of Jane Seymour the previous year. As Henry’s official court artist, Holbein was sent to Brussels to capture the...

This is the only painting by Klimt in a British public collection, and it’s a fine example of the portraits of society women he painted in the early years of the twentieth century. Wearing a shimmering dress made of translucent white chiffon, Hermine Gallia appears almost to float before us. The...

Charlotte Cuhrt (1895−1989) was 15 years old when Max Pechstein painted this striking full-length portrait. The daughter of Max Cuhrt, a successful solicitor and patron of the avant-garde, she sits confidently in an armchair, her big black eyes looking directly at the viewer. She’s dressed in red...

This full-length portrait of Victoria Stanley (1892–1927) was commissioned by her parents, Edward George Villers Stanley, the 17th Earl of Derby and his wife, Lady Alice Maud Olivia Montagu. It was painted at the height of John Singer Sargent’s fame as a society portraitist and was widely praised...