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Measuring about 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) by 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m), the work is in a vivid red and shows Charles in the uniform of the Welsh Guards. [3]Yeo explained his abundant deployment of the colour red in stating ..."The colour was an early experiment and then I sketched it out and worked on the face, and the face and background worked so well," and then went on to say ...."I just then ...
Yeo had four sittings with the King, beginning when Charles was Prince of Wales in June 2021 at Highgrove, and later at Clarence House. The last sitting took place in November 2023 at Clarence House.
Read on to learn more about what inspired Jonathan Yeo’s painting of King Charles III. Yeo wanted to put a 21st century spin on a traditional royal portrait.
Artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III stand in front of the portrait at Buckingham Palace on May 14, 2024 in London. Aaron Chown-WPA Pool/Getty Images Artist Jonathan Yeo is overjoyed by the ...
Art exhibition at the King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace [a] The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. [1] [2] [3] Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust.
Charles rewarded Bernini with a valuable diamond ring. Queen Henrietta Maria commissioned Bernini to make a companion bust of her, but the English Civil War intervened and it was never made. The bust of Charles was sold at the end of the English Civil War but recovered for the Royal Collection on the Restoration , only to be destroyed by a fire ...
Yeo told the BBC that Charles himself approved of the contemporary portrait. He noted that when the king first saw a "half-done" version of the painting he was "initially mildly surprised by the ...
Realist only in intentions and pictorial technique, the painting is actually the result of a highly fictionalised interpretation of the events. In fact, the king was not repatriated in broad daylight on an open stretcher but at night to the camp in Tistedalen and from there in a pine coffin to Uddevalla, where he was embalmed. The most likely ...