Artists who painted pictures of royalty in the past?

Question

so do you know their name?

Answer 1

rolf harris (h)

Answer 2

John Singer Sargent can fill a museum wing with huge portraits of the elite of society. . .

Most Renaissance artists kept food on the table painting portraits of kings, popes, etc.  

Answer 3

The list dates back generations, but here are some of the ones which stand out in my mind. Many artists paint royalty, but these ones were commissioned to paint them.

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy - The first black artist to be commissioned.

Lucien Freud

Michael Noakes

Rolf Harris - Yes, it's true.:-)

Peter Howson - One of my personal favourite artists of all time.

Answer 4

Lord Snowdon being married to a royal got most of the commissions.

Answer 5

Frank Beresford.

Answer 6

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4797....

this website explains a lot

Answer 7

Victoria, Regina et Imperiatrix was painted by lots of artists.

John Gilbert

Henry C Selous

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Edwin Landseer

Francis Grant

George Hayter

If I could be fagged to find my handbook on Victorian art I could find lots more. She also has statues in just about every British city, and lots in the Empire

Victoria herself (Gawd Bless'er) painted some pictures of the Royal Household

Anthony Van Dyck was court painter to Charles 1 -painted "Equestrian portrait of Charles 1" which is in the National Gallery

Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII is iconic http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collect...

If you put in a king or Queen's name and "Portrait" into Google Images, or Yahoo Images I am sure you could find several galleries full of pictures. Maybe a trawl of the National Portrait Gallery website as well.