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Twentieth-Century Watercolours and Drawings The Queen Mother's collection was particularly strong in works by twentieth-century British artists. She collected most actively during her husband's reign, a period dominated by the Second World War (1939-45).
On the King's death in 1952 Queen Elizabeth, now the Queen Mother, returned to Royal Lodge and Birkhall. She purchased the Castle of Mey in Caithness as a private residence, and Clarence House became her London home. Throughout her life the Queen Mother collected watercolours and drawings both of her official and her private residences.
In her single most important act of patronage, Queen Elizabeth commissioned a series of watercolour views of Windsor Castle from John Piper during the Second World War. They were intended to serve as a record of the Castle in case it was damaged by enemy bombs. The result was a virtuoso performance of topographical draughtsmanship.
Late in his life, when he had virtually given up painting portraits, he nonetheless produced a large number of charcoal portrait drawings. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and the Duke of York both sat for Sargent shortly before their marriage, which took place in April 1923.
19 de jul. de 2000 · RCIN 453457. With Queen Elizabeth as their Patron, the Royal Watercolour Society was allocated seats for the great birthday parade held in London to celebrate her 100th birthday. Charlotte Halliday, a member of the Society, recalled the event as ‘wonderful – quite unique of course, not only for the extraordinary variety of the processions ...
Watercolours And Drawings From The Collection Of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother written by Susan Owens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories. This is the first book devoted to the personal collection of Queen Elizabeth.
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, and grandmother of Prince Charles, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined ...
