The best royal portraits
February 15 2012
Picture: Telegraph/Postal Heritage
In The Daily Telegraph, the President of the Royal Academy, CHristopher le Brun, lists his favourite royal portraits, including Arnold Machin's portrayal of the Queen for the postage stamp:
This is the most elegant portrait of our Queen and the most enduring, as it is on our stamps. You can see the original plaster mould that Machin used for the stamp design at the British Postal Museum and Archive. The Queen is a symbol as well as a person and should never age, so it’s right that her most viewed portrait is youthful.
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