Fabergé: from the Romanovs to Royalty. Assembling the British Royal Collection of a Russian Master Goldsmith

Caroline de Guitaut

The British Royal Collection contains the pre-eminent group of works by the Russian goldsmith and jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). Collected over five generations from Queen Victoria to Her Majesty The Queen, through gift, purchase and commission the collection documents the diverse range of works created by the Fabergé firm. This lecture reveals the shared patronage of the last two Emperors of Russia with their British relations and the individual taste of successive royal collectors.