Re: QEII brooch from Queen Victoria's Jubilee Necklace Archived Message
Posted by joye on September 15, 2014, 8:57 pm, in reply to "Re: QEII brooch from Queen Victoria's Jubilee Necklace"
Thanks to all --Previous Message-- : : You win! : : --Previous Message-- : Of course, we will probably never know, but : I : would be personally very surprised that the : artist - whose rendition, in this portrait, : looks quite accurate, with little artistic : licence - would have decided to : "skip" the necklace and paint only : the central pendant as a brooch... and by an : extraordinary coincidence, he would have : done that precisely with a necklace whose : central element can be worn as a brooch! : : To me, it is more probable that the Queen : simply decided to wear the necklace's : central element as a brooch (as she wore the : naval cloak, with a high collar, a necklace : was not necessary), and the artist's : painting was faithful in every detail to : hist most illustrious model. : : : --Previous Message-- : : I think the Queen could have been wearing : the necklace and the artist included only a : certain amount of detail. : : : --Previous Message-- : I agree that the artist was definitely : portraying QV's Jubilee Necklace. When : looking at paintings we must always take : into consideration artistic license : especially if the portrait is not done in a : realist style. And HM could have very well : been wearing the complete necklace but the : artist thought it too busy and decided to : only paint the central element. : : : : : : :
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