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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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).
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 ...
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 ...
