As the British historian David Cannadine once noted, the Queen was "probably the most visually depicted and represented individual ever to have existed across the entire span of human history." She reigned for so long that we can only hazard a guess as to the number of images. ⁠ ⁠ The Queen never had a court painter as such. The nearest candidate was probably the Italian artist Pietro Annigoni, who painted a portrait of her between 1954 and 1955, and again in 1969. She has been painted by Lucien Freud and Gerhard Richter, immortalized by Andy Warhol and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibowitz and Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon and the Queens former brother-in-law.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more on how the Queen's likeness influenced art.⁠ ⁠ #art #QueenElizabethII #andywarhol