The London exhibition of portraits loaned from country houses across the United Kingdom will present the likenesses of seven queens, from the larger-than-life Tudors, the dynasty that first brought the art of the image to the fore, through to the present-day royalty, Sotheby’s aution house said in a press release Wednesday.
The iconic Armada portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, which commemorates the failed invasion of England by the Spanish Armada in 1588, is on loan from the Woburn Abbey collection and will lead the showcase alongside Andy Warhol’s 1985 “Reigning Queens” portrait. Warhol’s image is a richly colored reinterpretation of the official photographic portrait taken in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year.
The exhibition, which will run from May 28 to June 15, will also feature…
