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PEOPLE, Page 61Mum? Is That Really You?By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
Allo, 'allo, what's going on 'ere then? QUEEN ELIZABETH THE
QUEEN MOTHER has been done up for London's National Portrait
Gallery, but somehow she doesn't look right. Now 89, Britain's most
beloved granny posed for the likeness in five one-hour sessions,
but it seems a bit dour, like a landlady who's not too friendly
when the rent's got behind. Scottish artist ALISON WATT, 23, wanted
to show the Queen Mum's strong personality, not create a
chocolate-box version of her: there's no tiara, not even a hat.
Maybe people will be surprised and won't like it, Watt says, but
"I wasn't prepared to paint a Polaroid snap of her." The Queen Mum
reportedly approves.