Sketches of The Queen

BBC News is giving the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition lots of publicity lately. First it posted Jemma Phipps' new portrait of The Duke of Edinburgh I posted recently (CLICK). Now it has posted a slide show of previously unseen preparatory sketches of The Queen that will be displayed in the exhibition at Mall Galleries, which opens tomorrow (CLICK). This painted sketch is by Michael Noakes. It's better than many a finished portrait.