Yellow Drawing Room

[4] A number of pieces from the Yellow Drawing Room were among 120 objects from Buckingham Palace that were loaned to the Royal Pavilion for two years from September 2019.

[4] The Illustrated London News regretted the addition of medallion portraits of royal family members that broke up the frieze.

[1] The Illustrated London News described the decoration of the room as "incongruous" owing to the addition of the chinoiserie furniture from the Royal Pavilion.

[5] The pieces were bought to Buckingham Place after the 1850 sale of the pavilion; and incorporated into rooms at the palace under the direction of Prince Albert.

[8] The wallpaper depicts a Chinese garden with birds with distinctive plumages and butterflies as well as fruit trees and shrubs.

[7] It has nodding mandarins wearing dresses of varnished metal in niches and fearsome winged ormolu dragons.

[1] The pagodas sit either side of a pietra dura-topped table made by Morel & Seddon; it was originally intended for Windsor Castle's Crimson Drawing Room.

Terence Cuneo recalled photographing the four-year-old Prince Charles in the Yellow Drawing Room in 1953 as part of his preparations for the official portrait of the coronation of Elizabeth II.

[14] The light artist Chris Levine took 10,000 images in the Yellow Drawing Room of Queen Elizabeth II over two sittings to create his 2004 hologram, Equanimity.

[16] Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh posed in the room for his 2012 portrait by painter Jemma Phipps.

[17] Darren Baker's 2011 portrait of the Queen in the Yellow Drawing Room was commissioned to mark the 90th anniversary of the Royal British Legion and depicted her wearing five remembrance poppies and showing the time of 11 am on her wristwatch to symbolise the armistice that ended World War I.

A c. 1914 photograph of the room
An 1855 watercolour of the room