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RCIN 453373. The ‘Kitchen Sink School’ artist John Bratby executed a number of vibrantly colourful paintings and drawings of Venice in the 1980s, concentrating principally on the patterns made by reflections in the water and the shapes of gondolas. Bratby first met Queen Elizabeth in 1978 when he asked her to sit for a portrait.
RCIN 453477. The architect, writer and lecturer Sir Albert Richardson made this watercolour of Glamis in September 1950, writing in his diary of how he ‘spent the whole day sketching and colouring in the wet’. He presented the picture to Queen Elizabeth, and recorded that: ‘The Queen discussed the rosy glow which invariably came over the ...
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 ...
RCIN 453260. Queen Elizabeth bought the isolated sixteenth-century Castle of Mey in 1952, shortly after the death of King George VI. The Castle stands on the northernmost coast of the Scottish mainland in Caithness, about six miles west of John o’ Groats. This watercolour, which was presentedto Queen Elizabeth by the artist, is one of an ...
RCIN 453459. Birkhall, built in 1715, is situated on the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire above the river Muick. Queen Elizabeth, who occupied Birkhall when Duchess of York and later as Queen Mother, did much to modernise the house. She added a new wing (on the left in this view) in the mid-1950s and carried out the garden plans which she had ...
This view by Hugh Buchanan was commissioned as a ninetieth birthday present for Queen Elizabeth from the Crown Estate Staff of Windsor Great Park. King George V offered Royal Lodge to the Duke and Duchess of York in 1931. At this time it was in a very dilapidated condition, and the couple set about transforming it into a family home ...
Salisbury Tower, Windsor Castle, night. dated Jul 1946. RCIN 453483. This watercolour of the thirteenth-century Salisbury Tower, in the south-western corner of the Lower Ward of Windsor Castle, was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth shortly after the end of World War II. The topographical artist Claude Muncaster was asked to provide accurate ...