The Prime Minister’s Procession at the 1953 Coronation

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham Street

Born in Sheffield in 1915, Charles Mozley attended the Sheffield School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. After graduating in 1937, he taught life drawing, anatomy, and lithography for a short time at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Mozley joined the Army and spent the next six years in the armed forces. He resumed a commercial artistic career after the war, designing film and theatre posters, book jackets, in addition to murals for the Festival of Britain on London's South Bank in 1951. An archive of Charles Mozley’s work as a book illustrator and cover designer is held at the University of Reading Library.

People

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Places

England, London, Westminster

Subjects

carriage, horse, military uniform, flag, banner (as Subject), Leader of the Conservative Party, Prime Minister, parade, coronation, street decorations

Materials & Techniques

card, oil, oil painting

Artist

Charles Mozley (1915 - 1991)

Title

The Prime Minister’s Procession at the 1953 Coronation

Date

Medium

Oil on card

Dimensions

height: 50.00 cm, width: 75.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, August 1953

Inscription

none

GAC number

2459