This picture was commissioned by the States of Jersey, following an open invitation to artists to contribute proposals to record Jersey’s involvement in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Thames River Pageant on 3rd June 2012. The composition is based upon the Guildhall Art Galleries painting by Francis Wheatley and Richard Paton of the ‘The Lord Mayor’s Procession by Water to Westminster, November 9th 1789’.
The picture was unveiled by Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall on their visit to Jersey to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 18th July, 2012.