The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium host some fifty paintings from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The exhibition was previously on view at The Queen’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse and then subsequently at Buckingham Palace in London. The selection, centers on major works by Memling, Metsys, Gossaert, Bruegel the Elder, Paul Bril, Rubens and Van Dyck. These works are on view alongside relevant masterpieces from the Beligan collections. The Massacre of the Innocents by Bruegel the Elder from the British Royal Collection takes for the first time its place beside The Numbering at Bethlehem from the Museum of Fine Arts collection, thus providing a opportunity to see the way in which Bruegel depicted biblical scenes in the snowy Brabant landscape in these two paintings. The British royal collection is renowned for its great holding of works by Rubens and Van Dyck, both artists having spent time in England, and with Van Dyck having been employed at the court of Charles I for nine years.
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