£1,800
Royal Interest: a fine presentation photograph of HM Queen Elizabeth (later HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) wearing a sequinned ball gown, diamond tiara and jewels, against a painted classical garden backdrop. Signed Elizabeth R and dated 1939 (in Ink) and also signed in pencil by Cecil Beaton CBE (1904-1980) one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the twentieth century, the photographer. Mounted in a hallmarked sterling silver arched easel frame with gadroon beaded border the case with engine turned decoration bearing a crown to the arch. Hallmarked London 1939 makers mark rubbed.
H42cm x W29.5cm, photograph 23.9cm x 16.2cm. Formerly owned by Jean Cunninghame Graham (Lady Polwarth).
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