Click and drag the cursor on the tour window to manually navigate the room and identify select highlights. Click on highlights to view additional information. Use the tools at the window base to zoom in and out and show all the highlights. The Garden Room is in the center of the house and features major Royal Academy exhibits by Landseer, La Thangue, Leighton and Tuke. One of the initial premises for the formation of the collection was that every painting was to have been exhibited at the Royal Academy during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). This was the principal venue for all British artists exhibiting during the nineteenth century. The Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures & Works of Art contains many unusual items including four panels by Anna Alma-Tadema, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, John MacWhirter and Colin Hunter shown in this room either side of the windows. They were formerly in the house of the great classical painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema who had commissioned 45 panels from his friends to decorate his house in St. John's Wood.