The Queen's Gallery

The Queen's Gallery hosts changing exhibitions from the Royal Collection, featuring old master paintings, rare furniture, decorative arts and images from the vast photograph collection.

Deconstructing Art with Canaletto

'So using art in the curriculum or teaching in your classroom is an amazing way to inspire your children to look and to really take apart the paintings and enjoy them themselves.'

Deconstructing a Dutch Landscape

'In terms of your teaching and the curriculum, think about the skills that can be applied to looking at art. And looking is the key word. It's a skill we all have. It's a skill we need and we need to develop for our future lives and different careers that might be ahead of the children that you're teaching.'

Deconstructing Art with Rembrandt

'The beauty of this painting, though, is in the detail. And just looking at the way that the lace itself has been painted, not just to the actual detail of the lace, but the fact that Rembrandt has shown the way it curls over. '

Mobile phones and Rembrandt

'So in an age where we have mobile phones with multiple filters on and it's so quick and easy to change an image, how do we think Rembrandt would have taken to such technology?

Do you think he would have quite easily flipped the image in different ways and added different filters to get across a different message from the picture that he's trying to provide for us here?'

Photoshop and Rembrandt - How might he have used modern tools and techniques?

'So the idea of photoshopping is something that's quite interesting that can be brought into the teaching side of things in your classroom or here in the gallery. How can the perceptions be changed by altering the image through the idea of photoshopping? And that can be a painting, it can be a modern image or a photograph. There's all sorts of different things you could do with it. For example, if Rembrandt painted this slightly younger face, slightly thinner and maybe the clothes slightly differently, what sort of impression would that give to us in terms of who this person is?'

Rembrandt Self-portrait

'What's he trying to get across to us in this image about himself, and how might your children do that in an image? They might paint themselves or a photograph of themselves and also think about how they can Photoshop it to give a different impression. So there's all sorts of different creative ways that you can use a picture just like this.'

LGfL Image Bank

The LGfL Image Bank gives unique access to curated collections from Royal Collection Trust of high-resolution images from previous exhibitions previously at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace.

All images are licensed for educational use.