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john laviers wheatley ara 18921955portrait of hrh prince philip duke of edinburgh b1921 in the uniform of the admiral of the fleet

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SA553693

John Laviers Wheatley, A.R.A., 1892-1955 portrait Of H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh, B.1921 In The Uniform Of The Admiral Of The Fleet

Price

£6,500 | $9,058 USD | €7,575 EUR
Item Number: SA553693
Date of manufacture: 1950
Current Status: For sale
Seller: Artware Fineart
This antique has been viewed 52 times in the past month with the most views from France.

Description

John Laviers Wheatley, A.R.A., 1892-1955
Portrait of H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, b.1921 in the Uniform of the Admiral of the Fleet
Signed/Inscribed:
John Wheatley
oil on canvas
36 x 30in. (92 x 76 cm.)
This Portrait was almost certainly painted after Her Majesty the Queen succeeded to the throne in Feb 1952 since it shows Prince Philip in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, which he only wore in his role as Prince consort .
Notes
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921) is the husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. After being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth (his third cousin through Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and second cousin once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark), whom he had first met in 1934. During the Second World War he served with the Mediterranean and Pacific fleets.
After the war, Philip was granted permission by King George VI to marry Elizabeth. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947, he abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles and became a naturalised British subject, adopting the surname Mountbatten from his maternal grandparents. He married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. Just before the wedding, he was created Baron Greenwich, Earl of Merioneth and Duke of Edinburgh. Philip left active military service when Elizabeth became monarch in 1952, having reached the rank of commander, and was formally made a British prince in 1957.
Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward. He has eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Through a British Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and Elizabeth not bearing royal styles and titles can use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor, which has also been used by some members of the royal family who do hold titles, such as Prince Andrew, Princess Anne and Prince Edward.
A keen sports enthusiast, Philip helped develop the equestrian event of carriage driving. He is a patron, president or member of over 780 organisations and serves as chairman of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme for people aged 14 to 24. He is the longest-serving consort of a reigning British monarch and the oldest-ever male member of the British royal family. Philip retired from his royal duties on 2 August 2017, at the age of 96, after having completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952.
Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born in Mon Repos on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921, the only son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.[2] Philip's four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophie. He was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. His godparents were Queen Olga of Greece (his paternal grandmother) and the Mayor of Corfu.
Shortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, then known as Louis Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, died in London. Louis was a naturalised British citizen, who, after a career in the Royal Navy, had renounced his German titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten during the First World War. After visiting London for the memorial, Philip and his mother returned to Greece where Prince Andrew had remained behind to command an army division embroiled in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
The war went badly for
Internal Ref: 3946



Declaration

This item is antique. The date of manufacture has been declared as 1950.


Dimensions

Height = 92 cm (36.2")
Width = 76 cm (29.9")
Depth = 2 cm (0.8")


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