Thursday, January 24, 2013
Diamond Coronation Portrait
Over at Happy and Glorious, there is an interesting post on Australian portraits of Her Majesty the Queen, including the rather spectacular and splendidly regal one by Ralph Heimans below.
"The Coronation Theatre, Westminster Abbey: A Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Ralph Heimans currently hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. It will be moved to London this Spring as part of the Coronation’s 60th anniversary celebrations in June."
Wonderful portrait of a wonderful Queen!
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I'm Australian and I'm not a fan of this portrait. Her Majesty looks stooped and forlorn, shorn of decorations and insignia. The other portraits were magnificent. To me, this one seems to try and diminish Her Majesty as an authority figure. As I said, not a fan.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I don't see it myself, but I appreciate that crown and sceptre would also have been appropriate in a portrait of this time and setting.
ReplyDeleteA romantic depiction of our Queen's reality. This is a most wonderful portrait.
ReplyDeleteHow can anyone really be fanatical about any portrait anyhow?
It's good. Simple as that. Like an elderly Galadriel prolonging her voyage to the Undying Lands.
Thankfully, for the loyalist viewer, a courageous and thus hopeful depiction of Her Majesty the Queen is given. Not a despairing portrait at all, unless, one does despair!