Portraits of Queen tour for Jubilee

DOZENS of portraits of the Queen are coming to the Capital as part of a tour to mark the monarch's Diamond Jubilee.

The Queen: Art And Image is being billed as the most wide-ranging exhibition of multi-media images devoted to a single royal sitter.

Artist Chris Levine is creating another of his hologram portraits of the Queen for the exhibition, organised by the National Portrait Gallery.

Other highlights will include Lucian Freud's 2000-1 portrait from the Royal Collection, the Justin Mortimer painting of the Queen's head floating away from her body, and a Levine photograph of the Queen at a sitting with her eyes closed.

The exhibition, of 60 images spanning the 60 years of the Queen's reign, opens later this year at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh before touring to Belfast, Cardiff and London to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.