Extract from Reigning Queens

The Queen: Portraits of a Monarch: Drawings Gallery

The exhibition

The first official photographic sitting with the new Queen was granted to the society photographer Dorothy Wilding. It took place on 26 February 1952, just twenty days after the accession. A total of fifty-nine photographs were taken by Wilding, showing T

Dorothy Wilding (1893 – 1976)

Princess Elizabeth succeeded as Sovereign on the death of King George VI on 6 February 1952 and planning for the coronation began soon after. The date of Tuesday 2 June 1953 was selected, and the subsequent decision to televise the ceremony allowed unprec

Cecil Beaton (1904 – 80)

Three-quarter length photograph of HM Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926), standing and facing forwards with her head turned slightly to the right and her right hand resting on the back of a chair. HM The Queen is wearing a strapless dress with the Riband and Sta

Baron (1906 – 56)

Anthony Armstrong-Jones (born 1930)

Mixed media portrait, bust length, close up, head turned slightly left, looking left, wearing red cape. Blue background. Signed and dated lower right.Following the outstanding success of his portrait of The Queen painted for the Fishmongers' Company in 19

Pietro Annigoni (1910 – 88)

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Queen Elizabeth II

Raphael David Maklouf (b. 1937)

Queen Elizabeth II

Andy Warhol (1928-87)

Reigning Queens (Royal Edition): Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

John Merton (1913-2011)

Her Majesty The Queen (b. 1926)

Rankin [John Rankin Waddell] (b. 1966)

HM Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926)

Lucian Freud (1922-2011)

Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926)

Photograph of HM Queen Elizabeth II seated in full length facing the viewer in the White Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace. The Queen is illuminated by light from the window on her left and she wears Garter robes and a diamond tiara. A

Annie Leibovitz (born 1949)

John Swannell (b. 1946)

The Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee, marking sixty years on the throne

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