Portrait of Queen Mother Auctioned
Published July 11th, 2008
A painting of The Queen Mother with her daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, sold for £90,000 in Lyon & Turnbull Fine Paintings sale on 29th May. The painting by Charles Edmund Brock is accompanied by a letter dated November 1933 from HRH The Queen Mother asking the artist for a price to paint the portrait.
The portrait, entitled ‘A Royal Portrait of Elizabeth the Queen Mother and her daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret’ is signed and dated 1936 by Brock and was bought by Mr Alexander Meddowes, a Fine Art Broker in Edinburgh. Brock painted the two Princesses earlier in 1933 for King George VI who chose the studies to hang in his private sitting-room at Buckingham Palace.
The picture was on display at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on the 4th August 1980 as part of a formal tribute to Her Majesty The Queen Mother on the occasion of her 80th birthday.
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