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Auction 58 30 Mar 2022
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002), a studio portrait, 1991, by Stuart Devlin, 426 x 323mm., showing her profile right, wearing a diamond tiara, jewelled necklace and earrings (SD p. 270)
Sold with a letter, in certificate format, from and signed by Mrs Carole Devlin (26 September 2021) stating, 'Taken by him [Stuart Devlin] in one of the Queen's Studies at Buckingham Palace before a State Banquet for President Mubarak of Egypt in July 1991' [23 July].
The photographs in the lots 7 - 10 were taken by Stuart Devlin for his 1991 commission 'Masterpieces in Silver – The Royal Ladies Collection', a set of twenty five dollar coins for the Royal Australian Mint where they were to form the reverse design. The set was to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth Games Federation. There is no photograph of Her Majesty the Queen as the obverse design for all the coins in the set was the traditional portrait of by Raphael Maklouf.
Sold with a letter, in certificate format, from and signed by Mrs Carole Devlin (26 September 2021) stating, 'Taken by him [Stuart Devlin] in one of the Queen's Studies at Buckingham Palace before a State Banquet for President Mubarak of Egypt in July 1991' [23 July].
The photographs in the lots 7 - 10 were taken by Stuart Devlin for his 1991 commission 'Masterpieces in Silver – The Royal Ladies Collection', a set of twenty five dollar coins for the Royal Australian Mint where they were to form the reverse design. The set was to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth Games Federation. There is no photograph of Her Majesty the Queen as the obverse design for all the coins in the set was the traditional portrait of by Raphael Maklouf.