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Article: Enlightened royal patronage: an exhibition at the Queen's Gallery, London, reveals the full extent of the artistic patronage of George III and Queen Charlotte.(Exhibitions)
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- July 1, 2004
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George III was a monarch of the Enlightenment and the superb exhibition at the Queen's Gallery demonstrates not only the extraordinarily wide range of his interests and enthusiasm bur also the way he, as an enlightened ruler, both inspired and mirrored the interests of his subjects. The sense of harmony and balance which pervades the galleries reflects the harmony in the taste of the King and Queen and the balance between domestic and public, private and state which forms a leitmotif of the exhibition.
Although George III's grandfather and great-grandfather had little interest in the arts, his father, Frederick, Prince of Wales, was an enthusiastic patron, with a ...