EDINBURGH (REUTERS).- The French
Revolution of
1789 and the Napoleonic wars opened up a massive European art market,
and some
of the British royal purchases of the time are featured in a new
exhibition of
Dutch landscape and marine paintings in Edinburgh. The exhibition of 42
works by
17th century Dutch artists from the royal collection runs at the Queen’s
Gallery
at the Palace of Holyroodhouse from Saturday through to January 9,
2011. Desmond Shawe-Taylor, surveyor of the Queen’s pictures
who
curated the exhibition, said 34 of the paintings were bought by the
Prince
Regent (subsequently King George IV) between 1809 and 1820.