Kershaw Schofield, 1875-1941
double Portrait Of King George V, 1865-1936 & Queen Mary, 1867-1953
signed/inscribed:
signed Lower Right , The Stepped Oak Frame Bearing Presentation Plaque To G.Garnett & Son Ltd, To Commemorate Their Silver Jubilee 1910-1935
oil On Canvas
Price
£3,500 | $4,419 USD | €4,019 EUR
Item Number:SA868386 Date of manufacture:1920 Current Status: For sale Seller:Artware Fineart
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Description
Kershaw Schofield, 1875-1941 Double Portrait of King George V, 1865-1936 & Queen Mary, 1867-1953 signed lower right , the stepped oak frame bearing presentation plaque to G.Garnett & Son Ltd, to commemorate their silver jubilee 1910-1935 oil on canvas George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was the second son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On Victoria's death in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's death in 1910. George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape of the British Empire. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War (1914–1918), the empires of his first cousins Nicholas II of Russia and Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, he became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. In 1924, George appointed the first Labour ministry and the 1931 Statute of Westminster recognised the Empire's dominions as separate, independent states within the British Commonwealth of Nations. He suffered from smoking-related health problems throughout much of his later reign, and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII. George was born on 3 June 1865, in Marlborough House, London. He was the second son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra, Princess of Wales. His father was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and his mother was the eldest daughter of King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark. He was baptised at Windsor Castle on 7 July 1865 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Longley. As a younger son of the Prince of Wales, there was little expectation that George would become king. He was third in line to the throne, after his father and elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. George was only 17 months younger than Albert Victor, and the two princes were educated together. John Neale Dalton was appointed as their tutor in 1871. Neither Albert Victor nor George excelled intellectually. As their father thought that the navy was "the very best possible training for any boy", in September 1877, when George was 12 years old, both brothers joined the cadet training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth, Devon. For three years from 1879, the royal brothers served on HMS Bacchante, accompanied by Dalton. They toured the colonies of the British Empire in the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia, and visited Norfolk, Virginia, as well as South America, the Mediterranean, Egypt, and East Asia. In 1881 on a visit to Japan, George had a local artist tattoo a blue and red dragon on his arm, and was received in an audience by the Emperor Meiji; George and his brother presented Empress Haruko with two wallabies from Australia. Dalton wrote an account of their journey entitled The Cruise of HMS Bacchante. Between Melbourne and Sydney, Dalton recorded a sighting of the Flying Dutchman, a mythical ghost ship. When they returned to Britain, the Queen complained that her grandsons could not spe Internal Ref: 4450
Declaration
This item is antique. The date of manufacture has been declared as 1920.
Dimensions
Height = 48 cm (18.9")
Width = 58 cm (22.8")
Depth = 0 cm (0.0")
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The Kershaw Schofield, 1875-1941
Double Portrait of King George V, 1865-1936 & Queen Mary, 1867-1953
Signed/Inscribed:
signed lower right , the stepped oak frame bearing presentation plaque to G.Garnett & Son Ltd, to commemorate their silver jubilee 1910-1935
oil on canvas
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