(Source: Royal Mail Holdings plc) This special stamp issue is a series of six celebrating royal portraiture on the anniversary of the coronation The Coronation issue includes a stamp featuring a painted portrait specially commissioned by Royal Mail This is the first time Royal Mail has commissioned a painted portrait of Her Majesty The Queen The portrait was painted by artist Nicky Philipps, who also painted the double portrait of Princes William and Harry for the National Portrait Gallery Royal Mail is gifting the portrait to the Royal Collection The other five stamps feature; study for The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II by Terence Cuneo, 1953; Portrait by Andrew...
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