Lot 414: * ALEXANDER CRESWELL KFO The Heart Of The City

* ALEXANDER CRESWELL KFO The Heart Of The City watercolour, signed 38cm x 56cm New Academy Gallery label verso. Note: Creswell's technical brilliance has brought him Royal attention: after the fire at Windsor Castle in 1992, he was commissioned by the Queen to record the devastated State Rooms. Five years later, he was commissioned again, this time to show their phoenix-like restoration from the ashes. These paintings - 27 in all - now form part of the Royal Collection, in London and Windsor. In 2000, he recorded Prince Charles's tour of central Europe in his watercolour sketchbook, and in 2002, he was commissioned to paint the lying in state of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother for the Queen and for the House of Lords.