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Viceroy's House uses Bridgeman for set design

 

Bridgeman Images has licensed images for Viceroy's House, showing in UK cinemas now.

 

 

Based on a true story, the film follows the final Viceroy of India, British statesman Lord Mountbatten as he is charged with handing India back to its people.

 

A Grecian Idyll, 1907 (oil on canvas), John William Godward (1861-1922) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images

 

The upstairs/ downstairs stars Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson as Lord and Lady Mountbatten.

 

The Signal, 1899 (oil on canvas), John William Godward (1861-1922) / J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

 

The film uses images from the Bridgeman archive as set design. The paintings are by John William Godward (1861 - 1922) a Victorian Neo-classicist painter, and Britain’s Painter Laureate Frank Owen Salisbury (1874 - 1962).

 

Portrait of H. M. King George VI, seated full length, in Coronation Robes, 1937 (oil on canvas), Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images​

 

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See more images by John William Godward and Frank Owen Salisbury.

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