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History of royal portrait retouching includes chins lifted, waists cinched
LONDON — Queen Victoria became slimmer ... She commissioned a replacement portrait. Cecil Beaton, the master of royal photographers in the 20th century, was particularly skilled at enhancing ...
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Iconic photographs of late Queen and young Princess Margaret to be displayed in new exhibition
The exhibition will include images of the late Queen Elizabeth II and pictures ... taken by Godfrey Argent. Later 20th century photographs and more recent portraits, include Andy Warhol’s ...
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Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly ... notably painting a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II between 2000 and 2001. In 1983 Freud was ...
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Queen Elizabeth, whose reign encompassed the 20th-century ascent of British Jewry, dead at 96
(JTA) — The reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch who died Thursday at 96, encompassed the grief and the redemption of 20th century British Jewry, as well as their ...
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The difficult history of meetings between the British Monarch and the Pope
King Charles and Queen Camilla will make a State Visit to the Holy See in April. It is an historic moment as the Supreme ...