Picturing the Queen: How artists portrayed Queen Elizabeth II through her reign
Nick Glass | CNN | 10th September 2022
The media is giving us an Elizabethan week, following the death of the English monarch. She was perhaps the “most visually depicted individual ever”. Being on the throne as the mass media age blossomed, she was irresistible to image makers. A key decision, it seems, was whether or not to flatter. Warhol, like many others, showed her “eternal regal glamour”. Lucien Freud painted a small, controversial portrait that showed “she had been through a lot”. She never commented on it.