Portraits to celebrate 60 years of the Queen

Sixty images of the Queen, from formal portraits and news photographs to irreverent artworks by major contemporary names, go on show at the National Galleries of Scotland this summer in an exhibition celebrating 60 years of her reign.

British artist Chris Levine will unveil a hologram of Queen Elizabeth II based on his famous photograph Lightness of Being, which shows the Queen with her eyes closed. The artist said he wanted to "revisit that image and make it three-dimensional".

The show also includes a clip taken from the groundbreaking 1969 BBC documentary Royal Family, which gave British television viewers their first intimate look at the royals but has not been aired for more than 40 years.

The Queen: Art and Image is a touring exhibition to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. It opens in Edinburgh in June, before continuing to Belfast, Cardiff and London.

Douglas Connell, senior partner of Turcan Connell, the legal and investment firm sponsoring the Edinburgh run, said he was delighted "we in Scotland will have the first chance to view this very special range of images".

Highlights include Lucian Freud's controversial 2000-01 portrait from the Royal Collection, the Justin Mortimer painting of the Queen's head floating away from her body, and a lifesize 1969 portrait by Italian artist Pietro Annigoni.

The earliest image on display will be a 1952 photograph of the Queen stepping out of a plane from Kenya "to an entirely different role" after learning about the death of her father, King George VI.

Others include Cecil Beaton's 1953 photograph marking the Queen's coronation, and images of the monarch by artists Gilbert and George and Andy Warhol.

Exhibition curator Paul Moorhouse said that the Queen was "probably the most visually represented person ever to have lived in the whole of human history". While the show includes images from the Royal Collection, he said it would be "far from a formal or official view of the Queen".