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Home and domestic life provided a common subject for the Queen’s watercolours and drawings. In 1843, she painted a deft portrait of her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, with a parrot, and at around the same time made a searching pencil study of her own face. Archie and Annie MacDonald were the young children of Prince Albert’s ...
8 de set. de 2022 · Perhaps one of the most iconic is Andy Warhol’s Reigning Queens, a series of sixteen prints made up of four images of the four female monarchs who were ruling in the world in 1985. Tate has one print from the series, that of The Queen Elizabeth II, in its collection. Warhol captures Her Majesty’s poise and glamour, basing the images on a ...
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.
The Royal collection of works by Fabergé, the greatest Russian jeweller and goldsmith of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is unparalleled in size, range and quality. It was acquired almost exclusively through the exchange of personal gifts between the Russian, Danish and British royal families. Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward ...
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).
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.
