Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Allegory: HRH The Prince Regent Awakening The Spirit of Brighton
Allegory: HRH The Prince Regent Awakening The Spirit of Brighton Allegory: HRH The Prince Regent Awakening The Spirit of Brighton
Courtesy Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

Allegory: HRH The Prince Regent Awakening The Spirit of Brighton

Rex Whistler

Art Funded
1945
Dimensions
157 x 246 cm
Vendor
House's owner (where the mural was painted)
Allegory in the forms of a winged cupid and a sleeping nymph respectively.

Painted directly on wallpaper; removed and remounted on canvas. Dated 5-7 June 1944.

Provenance

Originally a mural painted directly onto the wall-paper of a house in Brighton whilst it was requisitioned by Whistler's battalion of the Welsh Guards during the Second World War.

Oil on wall-paper (now mounted on canvas)

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The Royal Pavilion

Pavilion Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1EE
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1 Apr – 30 Sep Daily, 9.30am – 5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm) 1 Oct – 31 Mar Daily, 10am – 5.15pm (last admission 4.30pm) Closed 24 Dec (from 2.30pm) & 25 – 26 Dec

Art we’ve helped buy at The Royal Pavilion

Queen's Park, Brighton
Acquired
Two regency rosewood sofa/ games tables
 Acquired 1980
Two Porcelain Pagodas
 Acquired 1949
The Music Room, Brighton Pavilion
 Acquired 1985
The Londonderry Silver
 Acquired 1983
The Brighton Cup, 1805
 Acquired 1951
Teapoy
 Acquired 1947
Regency Couch
 Acquired 1967
Regency chiffonier
 Acquired 1977
Pair of Vase-shaped Knife-urns
 Acquired 1955
Pair of Urns on pedestals
 Acquired 1955
Pair of three-light candelabra
 Acquired 1978
Pair of Regency side-tables
 Acquired 1969
Pair of Regency Settees
 Acquired 1968
Pair of Candle-Stands
 Acquired 1971
Inkstand
 Acquired 1963
George IV side cabinet
 Acquired 1993
Folding card table
 Acquired 1974
Collection of Porcelain
 Acquired 1955
Collection of four figures & pedestals
 Acquired 1966
Chinoiserie chair
 Acquired 1992
Caricatures of George IV and his circle
 Acquired 2010
Brighthelmston, Sussex
 Acquired 2012
Boulle writing table
 Acquired 1986
Allegory: HRH The Prince Regent Awakening The Spirit of Brighton
 Acquired 1945
A View of Virginia Water
 Acquired 1983

The Music Room, Brighton Pavilion by Augustus Charles Pugin is a preparatory drawing for one of the 1826 'Views of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton', published by John Nash. It shows the ornate Music Room designed by Frederick Crace for the Prince Regent. The figures in the picture are drawn from life by John Stephanoff and several can be identified.

Two Chinese Pagodas from the Yung Chen period, part of original furnishings of the Music Room at the Royal Pavilion, were probably supplied to the Prince Regent in 1815 by Fogg's. Each has nine storeys, richly decorated, with gilt-bronze kylins as finials at each angle of the roof section.

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The Kylin clock, c1700–1822, Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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