The Department of Fine and Decorative Art embraces works of art on paper, canvas and wood, together with sculpture, ceramics, silver, ethnographic and soldier arts and crafts. Highlights of the collection include a stunning silver tankard commemorating the Duke of Cumberland’s victory over Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden in 1746, a fine portrait of Lieutenant-General Robert Monkton and Charles Edwin Fripp’s dramatic depiction of the Zulu victory at Isandlwana in 1879.
In total, the department holds some 50,000 prints, drawings, and watercolours, together with over 835 oil paintings and miniatures, many of which are currently on display in the Museum Art Gallery. Others can be made available to the public on request via the Templer Study Centre.
Head of Department: Ms Jenny Spencer-Smith
Department Email: fda@national-army-museum.ac.uk
Address: National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London, SW3 4HT
Enquiries
The National Army Museum will try to answer specific questions relating to its Collections. If you are researching the military career of a relative please visit our Research Tips page.
General enquiries about the Collections can be sent by e-mail to info@national-army-museum.ac.uk. Please remember to include your postal address on all e-mail enquiries to allow for the prompt dispatch of material, if appropriate. Please also bear in mind that the Museum receives a large number of enquiries, so it may not be possible to respond to e-mails immediately. All enquiries, in whatever form, are dealt with by the departments in the order of their receipt.
Museum staff are not permitted to give valuations: these may be obtained instead from an auction house or a specialist dealer.
The Museum may lend artefacts only to Registered (or the equivalent) museums for Special Exhibitions, for a maximum period of a year and subject to specific Conditions of Loan.
Ordering copy photographs from the National Army Museum
Our picture ordering service will be temporarily closed until further notice. Visit the Picture Library to find out more.
