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John Piper’s Views of Windsor. 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 ...
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 ...
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RCIN 453593. Prince Albert (the second son of the future King George V) and Lady Elizabeth first met at a children’s party in 1905, when he was ten years old and she was five. When they met again in June 1920 the Duke of York, as he had become, fell in love with her. Early in 1923 Lady Elizabeth accepted his proposal of marriage and they were ...
When King Edward VIII abdicated after a reign of less than eleven months, his younger brother – the Duke of York – unexpectedly became King, and the Duchess his Queen Consort. This drawing by the topographical artist Muirhead Bone, which Queen Elizabeth purchased in 1942, shows the crowds outside Buckingham Palace.
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.
Elizabeth, > Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, > 1900-2002 > Art collections > Catalogs. Watercolor painting, British > Catalogs. Genre:
