Queen Mother Painting Makes £90,000 at Auction
Published May 30th, 2008
A portrait showing Britain’s late Queen Mother with her daughters, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, was sold for 90,000 pounds at a Lyon and Turnbull auction on Thursday, fetching almost double the estimate of 50,000 pounds.
Entitled A Royal Portrait of Elizabeth the Queen Mother and her daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, it was painted in 1936 by Charles Edmund Brock, whose family released it for auction.
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