The other royal collection: Windsors’ multimillion-pound private trove of art may include official gifts

on an official visit to Denmark when the venerated modernist painter Marc Chagall pressed a gift into his hands. It was 1960 and the pair had just met at a ceremony where Chagall was presented with the prestigious Erasmus prize. Philip would later recall the artist’s “jocular attitude” as he showed him around his exhibition.

Royal art can broadly be separated into two categories. Most of it is part of the royal collection, more than a million items that are held in trust by the sovereign for the benefit of the nation. Described as one of the greatest art collections in the world, it is the nearest the UK has to a public custodian of royal-linked art.

TV presenter Claire Balding talks to Camilla, the Queen Consort, during an event at Clarence House in April 2010.Charles can largely thank his grandmother for the art adorning the walls of Clarence House. An avid private collector, Queen Elizabeth thebought dozens of valuable artworks between the 1930s and 1950s, when prices were lower because of the war, and bargains could be found in the frequent country house sales of the time.

Clarence House, which used to be open to the public, has been closed since 2019. The Monet and other artworks can be seen in aThe artworks also include Fylde Farm by LS Lowry, worth about £120,000, and a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John, worth about £70,000Elsewhere in the house are multiple other works, including paintings by Paul Nash, Raffaellino del Garbo and Alfred Sisley.

The Guardian consulted experts on the value of 60 of the most significant works on a list of 392 identified as being privately owned by the Windsors. The total value of the 60 was estimated to be at least £24m. But that valuation is based on only a fraction of a much larger collection.The Guardian scoured press reports, exhibition guides and photographs and visited palaces to create a log of 392 artworks that appear to be owned by central members of the royal family.

Where possible, we logged details of how and when the artwork was acquired. We then asked the palace detailed questions about the ownership status of those we believed fell into the category of 'official gifts', according to the royal gift policy. Robert James, from Coram James, estimated works by Augustus John, Nash, Del Garbo, Dali, Gainsborough.

You missed an R, it's spelled 'grifts'

Gifts given to the royal family in the course of what passes as their “duties” should be subject to the same rules as gifts given to ministers and civil servants in like circumstances

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