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Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. This exhibition is in the past. View our current exhibitions. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The Queen Mother's Residences. Twentieth-Century Watercolours and Drawings. Earlier watercolours and drawings. RCIN 453275. VIEW FURTHER INFORMATION IN EXPLORE THE ...
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.
4 ago 1990 · He was well known for his small and witty drawings of buildings and figures, many of which he presented to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. His watercolours of her London home, Clarence House, and his interior view of the Saloon at Royal Lodge, were both 90th birthday presents.
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon’s mother, Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, married Claude Bowes-Lyon (the Earl of Strathmore from 1904) in 1881. They had ten children, of whom Elizabeth was the penultimate child and youngest daughter. Lady Strathmore had a close relationship with her children, and she taught the youngest ones to read and write.
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 distinctive turrets with conical roofs.
WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER by SUSAN OWENS, ROYAL COLLECTION edition, in Undetermined
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 ...
