British author Michael Hall, who wrote a book about the British Royal Family’s private collection which accompanied a BBC series and major exhibition, is doing an exclusive illustrated talk at the Lismore Regional Gallery later this month.

The Royals' private art collection is the largest in the world, totalling over one million objects.

The collection contains 7,000 paintings, 150,000 works on paper (such as drawings, lithographs, and other prints), 30,000 watercolours, as well as furniture, weapons and armour.

It includes drawings by Michelangelo, paintings by Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer and Canaletto and contemporary works by artists such as Andy Warhol and Anish Kapoor (who Lismore Regional Gallery exhibited in 2017) and the Crown Jewels, housed in the Tower of London.

Hall is the author of Art, Passion and Power: The Story of The Royal Collection, published in 2016, which was the accompanying publication for the BBC series of the same name and a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

“Together, this was the definitive statement on the British monarchy's treasures of the art world,” a media release from the Lismore Regional Gallery said.

Hall is also the Editor of The Burlington Magazine, one of the world’s most respected art history journals.

“Lismore Regional Gallery is the only Australian venue to be hosting Hall, where he will explain ‘the enthusiasms, whims and obsessions of the Royal Family for over 500 years’,” the media release said.

The Story of the Royal Collection with Michael Hall is on at the Lismore Regional Gallery on Wednesday 28th August at 5.30 pm. Tickets are $15, or $10 Concession/Friend of Lismore Regional Gallery

Bookings are essential: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=525145&