Overall: 32cm (12.5in) x 23cm (9in)
Black and white half length portrait photograph by Anthony Buckley, signed and dated by the Queen Mother, ‘Elizabeth R /1984’ in the lower mount. Photographer’s stamp verson of Anthony Buckley and Constantine Ltd, 81 Grosvenor Street, London W1. The Queen Mother is shown wearing the Greville Tiara and the Greville Peardrop earrings. The necklaces are the diamond rivière presented to Elizabeth by King George VI just before their coronation in 1937, paired with the Queen Victoria’s coronation necklace and Queen Victoria’s 1856 Fringe brooch. She hurther wears the sash of the Order of the Garter and Royal Family Orders of Elizabth II and George VI. Contained in original easel backed navy blue Morocco glazed frame with arched top, embossed with crowned ER cypher, by Paul Longmire Ltd, St. James’s, London SW1.
Anthony Buckley (1912-1993) opened his first portrait studio in 1937 and he quickly gained a reputation for his portraits of leading actresses of the day. After serving in World War II, he worked from a studio on St Alban's Street and then in the 1950s on New Bond Street, when he purchased the premises and business of Janet Jevons. In the early 1950s he worked in Dorothy Wilding’s London studio. His reputation as a leading stage portraitist grew rapidly. In the 1960s he moved to Grosvenor Street, an address that better reflected his enhanced status as a royal photographer. His prints spanning the years 1937-75 were donated to the National Portrait Gallery in 1995.