Becoming queen The official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken in February 1952 after the death of her father and upon her ascension to the throne.
Queen Elizabeth II Credit: The Royal Collection
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Research into Queen portraits
In order to gather an informed piece I began to conduct research into famous portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.
Shortly after Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne, she sat for a single portrait session with Dorothy Wilding, the first woman to be awarded a Royal Warrant to be an official royal photographer. Appearing on magazine covers, banknotes, stamps and coins in slightly different forms, photos taken during that session became some of the most frequently reproduced images in the world.
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