Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

by Michael Leonard
acrylic on cotton duck, 1985-1986
30 in. x 24 1/4 in. (762 mm x 616 mm)
Given by Reader's Digest Association, 1986
Primary Collection
NPG 5861

Sitter

Queen Elizabeth II (1926-), Queen regnant. Sitter associated with 454 portraits.

Artist

Michael Leonard (1933-). Artist of 1 portrait.

This portrait

Michael Leonard said of this portrait, which shows The Queen with her corgi Spark, that his aim was 'a straightforward rather informal picture that would tend to play down the remoteness of Her Majesty's special position'.

Linked publications

David Williamson, Kings and Queens, 2010, p. 165
Gibson, Robin, The Face in the Corner: Animal in Portraits from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, 1998, p. 93
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 202
Williamson, David, The National Portrait Gallery's History of the Kings and Queens of England, 1998, p. 159

Subject/Theme

Pets and animals