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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 dark ...
Twentieth-Century Watercolours and Drawings. Elizabeth Keith woodcuts. The Scottish-born artist Elizabeth Keith first visited Japan in 1915. What had been intended as a brief visit turned into a stay of nine years, during which time she also travelled to China, Korea and the Philippines. Keith made contact with missionaries, and as a result was ...
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and her support to the throne during four reigns. by: Laird, Dorothy Published: (1966) Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1900-2002 : the Queen Mother and her century : a tribute / by: Bousfield, Arthur, 1943- Published: (2002)
c.1900-10. RCIN 453578. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon spent much of her childhood at Glamis Castle, twelve miles north of Dundee, which has belonged to the Lyon family since the fourteenth century. The oldest surviving parts of the castle date from 1372, although it was remodelled in the seventeenth century by the 3rd Earl of Strathmore, who added ...
The Queen Mother's Residences. Sir Hugh Casson (1910–1999) The architect Sir Hugh Casson was President of the Royal Academy from 1976 to 1984. He became a close friend of several members of the Royal Family and over the years undertook a number of architectural projects for HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
5 de out. de 2007 · Sandringham House and Castle Acre Priory feature in an exhibition of more than 70 watercolours and drawings, from the collection of the Queen Mother, at Norwich Castle until Sunday, 6 January, 2008.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 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.