Highlights from the Victoria & Albert: Art & Love exhibition at Buckingham Palace

A member of staff adjusts a portrait of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Photograph: Sang Tan/guardian.co.uk Prince Albert’s taste was influenced by his German ancestry and his experience as a student in Florence and Rome. Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted the royal family in 1846 Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian Photograph: Martin Godwin/guardian.co.uk A member of staff opens a cabinet with the queen's costume for the Stuart ball in 1851, designed by Eugène Lami Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA Photograph: Anthony Devlin/guardian.co.uk Victoria was the first monarch to live at Buckingham Palace. Guests were encouraged to commission elaborate fancy dress in support of the declining Spitalfields silk industry Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Photograph: Sang Tan/guardian.co.uk The exhibition includes the most sumptuous of Victoria’s surviving dresses, designed by Eugène Lami for the 1851 Stuart ball, seen here in detail Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA Photograph: Anthony Devlin/guardian.co.uk This throne, carved from ivory, was a gift to Victoria from the Maharaja of Travancore in 1851 Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian Photograph: Martin Godwin/guardian.co.uk A staff member checks the throne and its footstool Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Photograph: Sang Tan/guardian.co.uk The exhibition displays a dazzling selection of jewels presented to the queen by the directors of the East India Company Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA Photograph: Anthony Devlin/guardian.co.uk