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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/queen-impresses-with-art-knowledge.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Sultan Qaboos bin Said take the salute during a visit to Al-Alam Palace in Muscat, Oman" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-queen-impresses-with-art-knowledge.jpg" alt="The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Sultan Qaboos bin Said take the salute during a visit to Al-Alam Palace in Muscat, Oman"/></a></p>
<p>The Queen tried her hand at art curating when she led the Sultan of Oman around a viewing of priceless British paintings.</p>
<p>With some of the world&#8217;s most famous pictures in the Royal Collection, the monarch is believed to have a deep knowledge of art to draw on.</p>
<p>The sovereign revealed her interest in horse paintings when she was shown six pictures in Sultan Qaboos&#8217; Al-Alam Palace in the Omani capital of Muscat that have been loaned by the Tate.</p>
<p>The artworks represent British landscape painting over the past 250 years from some of the country&#8217;s most famous artists including Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, Millais and Singer Sargent.</p>
<p>But it was the picture of a group of horses by George Stubbs, best known for his anatomically correct studies of the animals, which made the biggest impression on the monarch.</p>
<p>Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, showed the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and the Sultan around the pictures, which will soon go on public display until the new year.</p>
<p>The Stubbs picture showed mares and foals against a landscape backdrop and as the Queen turned to the Sultan, she said: &#8220;You know they always painted their front legs out and their back legs out.&#8221; She went on to explain how the painter was the first to create anatomically correct horses.</p>
<p>Sir Nicholas said after the viewing: &#8220;The Queen, because of her familiarity with the Royal Collection and Stubbs, was explaining he was the first to paint the horses in a naturalistic way.</p>
<p>&#8220;To show the Omanis a group of British landscapes painted over the last 250 years is a very important way of promoting the relationship between our two countries,&#8221; he added.</p>
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