The histories of this room and of the adjoining Blue Velvet Room are closely entwined. In the 1780s there was a dressing room and bedroom on the site of this room, with neo-classical painted decoration carried out under the direction of Henry Holland. Subsequently the two rooms were combined and a new scheme of decoration consisting of blue velvet in gilt panels, fleur-de-lis-patterned silk and carpet was installed between 1811 and 1814, in sequence with and by the same suppliers as that in the adjoining Blue Velvet Room. At the same time, a French chimneypiece was moved here from the Blue Velvet Room. In the centre stands one of a pair of Boulle marquetry tables by Thomas Parker, purchased in 1814, and either side may be seen the pair of Boulle medal-cabinets.

On the walls were hung some of George IV's extensive collection of Dutch paintings. We can partially see the hanging rhythm of one larger painting flanked by two smaller: on the left wall Ruisadael’s Landscape with Windmill (405538) is flanked by Henrick’s Pot’s family portrait of Charles I (405541); on the right wall, Cuyp’s Trooper (405321) is flanked on the left by a Wouwermans hunting party (406736). Two van der Heyden landscapes (405948 & 404950) provided the balancing works, neither visible in this image.

Catalogue entry from Royal Treasures, A Golden Jubilee Celebration, London 2002