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RCIN 453343. 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.
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.
The catalogue is arranged in three parts: firstly, a biographical section, incorporating portraits and records of events of both personal and national significance; secondly, a section drawn from Queen Elizabeth's extensive collection of watercolours of her residences; and thirdly, a diverse section of landscapes, topographical watercolours, still lifes and figure studies by artists ranging ...
RCIN 453275. Great structural changes were made to Deputy Ranger’s Lodge in the early nineteenth century when the Prince Regent used it as his Windsor residence, and transformed it into a rambling cottage orné. On his accession in 1830 his brother William IV pulled down all the original building shown in Sandby’s views and much of the new ...
Queen Elizabeth II 1985–1986. Michael Leonard (1933–2023) Acrylic on cotton duck. H 76.2 x W 61.6 cm. National Portrait Gallery, London. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born on 21 April 1926, in a house just off Berkeley Square in London. She was the first child of Albert, Duke of York, second son of George V, and his duchess, the ...
The American painter John Singer Sargent, who settled in London in 1886, was renowned for his dazzling paintings of society beauties, artists, writers and statesmen. 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 ...
Soon after the accession of King George VI in 1936, Queen Elizabeth began to form a small but well-chosen collection of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British watercolours and drawings. A number of works, such as those by Thomas Gainsborough and John Varley, reflect her wider interest in the landscape tradition.
