Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29150
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29151
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29152
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29153
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29154
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29156
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29158
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29159
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29160
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29161
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29163
by Hay Wrightson
chlorobromide print, 1919-1949
NPG x47225
by Hay Wrightson
chlorobromide print, 1919-1949
NPG x47224
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29162
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1919
NPG x29164
Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1920s
NPG x29130
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1920s
NPG x132178
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1920s
NPG x132179
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1920s
NPG x132180
by Hay Wrightson
whole-plate film negative, 1920s
NPG x132238
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Ray klees
06 January 2017, 13:20
My father was an American bomber pilot, based at Snetterton-Heath, south of Norwich. He went to London on leave occasionally. He sat for portraits at the Studio of Hay Wrightson. Wrightson took a liking to my father and wrote, by hand, a beautiful letter to my grandmother (about whom my father spoke to Wrightson about) telling her that my father seemed burdened and worried in his first sitting. He could not find a smile for any portrait. But on his 3nd visit, Wrightson was pleased to find the subject more relieved and better-spirited. Wrightson was most pleased by that. It is a beautiful letter we have cherished since 1944. I tried to return it to the address on the stationery... Bond Street, I believe, but of course, proprietary had changed. We still have this touching and personal communique that my grandmother always saved and read often.