Princess Susan Of Oman
Gail Elfert
In the honor of the Her Majesty, we prepared a brief history of the sculptures and paintings dedicated to her horse passion, paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as an inspirational true horsewoman and extraordinary horse lover, who has ridden horses for most of her nine decades.
Elizabeth II, along with the rest of the British royal family, also was a prolific art collector. Passionate about the arts, The Queen supported talented equestrian artists whose works accompanied Her Majesty throughout her life.
As a child, Elizabeth was given her first horse, a Shetland pony named Peggy, at age 4, which she was riding by the age of 6. By age 18, she was an accomplished rider, and continued to ride for pleasure into her nineties.
In her role as monarch, Elizabeth also rode in a ceremonial role. From her first appearance as princess in 1947 and throughout her reign as queen until 1986, she attended the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony on horseback. Initially, she rode a bay police horse named Tommy in 1947.
When her father, King George VI, was unwell, she rode in his place on his chestnut horse Winston, and she rode Winston after George VI's death. Later she rode a chestnut horse named Imperial. For eighteen consecutive years, from 1969 to 1986, her horse was a black mare named Burmese. Burmese was a gift from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. From 1987 onward, since Burmese retired, she would attend in a carriage.
Four of his portraits of the Queen were painted for government institutions in Canada. The Queen often recommended Boden if asked whether she would prefer any particular artist's depictions of her. Boden's daughter, Daphne, sometimes played the harp for the Queen while her father painted.
Susan Crawford was born in Scotland in 1941 and was brought up on a farm in East Lothian where her parents bred and trained racehorses. She has to date painted 22 Derby winners. Her first joint exhibition was with the Tryon Gallery in 1969, where she sold all her pictures on the opening night.
Over the next 40 years she travelled widely; firstly to the USA then Canada, Germany, Brunei, Australia and the Sultanate of Oman as well as with numerous visits to Ireland and throughout the UK.
While painting Charles and the Queen, he was invited to stay in Buckingham Palace and said that he was in a massive room, all alone for much of the time. The Queen would come in from time to time to sit and check on the progress.
Friberg was invited to be a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and added the RSA to his paintings signatures thereafter.
This is a statue of Queen Elizabeth riding on Burmese, a horse given to her by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She rode the horse in 18 consecutive birthday parades. In 1986, Burmese was retired to Windsor, where she died in 1990. The statue is located on the grounds of the Saskatchewan Legislature in Wascana Park (Regina, Canada).
Velder jokes that she had a lot of visitors while the hat was in her studio, once the community found out about it. Her Royal Highness unveiled the statue in front of the Legislature in 2005 when she visited Saskatchewan.
Susan Velder, born in 1939, received her training at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Alberta, graduating in 1977. She later received a diploma in art education from the University of Calgary and left Alberta to move to Saskatchewan in 1986.
Velder's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows and is part of numerous corporate and private collections. She has completed numerous public sculptures in materials including bronze, concrete, and steel.
This statue was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 3rd November 2016. It was placed here to mark Her Majesty's 90th birthday and to celebrate her special relationship with Newmarket and the thoroughbred horse.
Planned by the Newmarket Commemoration Committee, the statue has been gifted to the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art and will be maintained by Newmarket Town Council.
The piece was created by Etienne Millner, who sculpted the Queen, and Charlie Langton, who was responsible for the animals.
Etienne Millner (b. 1954) is a London based figurative sculptor working mainly in life-size and monumental portraiture.
Charlie Langton (b. 1983) is one of the most sought-after equine artists of our time. His commitment to the Classical principles of the old masters underscored by a deep understanding of equine anatomy and a love for the horse, renders his work painstakingly accurate and astonishingly true to life.
Major works include his over life-size bronze tribute to four-time Gold Cup Winner Yeats in the parade ring at Ascot Racecourse. The piece was unveiled by Her Majesty The Queen on the opening day of Royal Ascot in 2011 when Charlie was just 26.
It is said the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man, and horsemen the world over will confirm that the outside of a great horse is something very special indeed. It is this feeling that Charlie seeks to capture through his work.
The obverse of the coin is an equestrian portrait of The Queen by Arnold Machin. The Queen is shown in uniform as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. This is one of the uniforms worn by Her Majesty at the ceremony of Trooping the Colour.
The reverse which is also by Arnold Machin shows a crown and the ampulla and anointing spoon that were used in the coronation ceremony, surrounded by a floral garland.
In keeping with the designs of the 1953 coronation crown, and the 1977 silver jubilee crown, the queen is shown on horseback. This new equestrian portrait is the work of Ian Rank-Broadley.
In addition to the usual inscription, there is also "AMOR POPULI PRAESIDIUM REG" which translates loosely as "The Love Of The People Is The Queen's Protection". This inscription but with the word REGIS for king instead of REG for queen first appeared on gold angels of Charles I.
A superb portrait of the Queen in robes and diadem graces the reverse. Both designs are the work of Ian Rank-Broadley, the artist who created the Royal portrait approved for the circulating coins of the United Kingdom from 1998.
Ian Rank-Broadley (born 1952) is one of the foremost sculptors working today. His effigy of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II appears on all UK and Commonwealth coinage since 1998. In 2012 he was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Vicenza Numismatica.
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