News and Exhibitions

BP Portrait Award 2011
National Portrait Gallery
London

R.H.
© Isobel Peachey

My portrait of a friend, 'R.H.', was selected for the BP Portrait Award 2011 exhibition 
which opened at the National Portrait Gallery, in London, June 2011.
The exhibition toured the UK, between September 2011 and January 2012, 
showing at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Aberdeen Art Gallery.

Royal Portrait Commission

Portrait of Her Majesty The Queen 
© Isobel Peachey

In September 2009 I was commissioned by Cunard to paint an official portrait of 
The Queen for the new Queen Elizabeth liner which was named by 
Her Majesty on 11 October 2010 in Southampton.

The portrait shows The Queen in the Yellow Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace. 
The Queen granted me three sittings for the portrait which shows her dressed in blue 
wearing Queen Victoria's diamond collet necklace and earrings, 
also worn at her Coronation in 1953.

The portrait was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery on 20 September 2010 during a private press launch.  

Please note the portrait is not on view at the National Portrait Gallery as it is
on display in the Grand Lobby of the new liner Queen Elizabeth.