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Twentieth-Century Watercolours and Drawings The Queen Mother's collection was particularly strong in works by twentieth-century British artists. She collected most actively during her husband's reign, a period dominated by the Second World War (1939-45).
Built in the second half of the eighteenth century, Sandringham Hall in Norfolk became a royal residence in 1863 when the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, moved there shortly after their wedding. The Georgian structure was found to be too small for the demands of a growing family and the Prince of Wales ...
On the King's death in 1952 Queen Elizabeth, now the Queen Mother, returned to Royal Lodge and Birkhall. She purchased the Castle of Mey in Caithness as a private residence, and Clarence House became her London home. Throughout her life the Queen Mother collected watercolours and drawings both of her official and her private residences.
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.
The American painter John Singer Sargent, who settled in London in 1886, was renowned for his dazzling paintings of society beauties, artists, writers and statesmen. Late in his life, when he had virtually given up painting portraits, he nonetheless produced a large number of charcoal portrait drawings. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and the Duke of ...
Elizabeth, > Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, > 1900-2002 > Art collections > Catalogs. Watercolor painting, British > Catalogs. Holdings
