The Royal Mail has revealed a set of six portrait stamps in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation.
The stamps, designed by Atelier Works, feature a newly commissioned painting which will be gifted by the Royal Mail to the Royal collection.
Ian Chilvers, partner at Atelier Works, says they turned to Nicky Philipps, whose style would complement the other paintings Atelier Works had selected ;
“There are so many different types of painting of the Queen. We could have used Warhol, Freud and Mortimer – and obviously we tried – but they all looked disparate and didn’t work as a set.”
The other five stamps feature: study for The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II by Terence Cuneo, 1953; Portrait by Andrew Festing, 1999; Portrait by Pietro Annigoni, 1955; Portrait by Sergei Pavlenko, 2000 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Richard Stone, 1992. Keen collectors will be pleased to hear the stamps are available from today.