Norman Douglas Hutchinson

Norman Douglas Hutchinson (11 October 1932 – 24 June 2010) was a British Royal painter. He was noted for his 1988 painting of Queen Elizabeth II.

Life Hutchinson was born in Calcutta, India on 11 October 1932. He was the illegitimate child of Hon. Eric Douglas – a Scottish nobleman – and his 15-year-old Anglo-Indian servant Florence. However, despite (or perhaps because of) his noble parentage, he was given to an orphanage, Dr. Graham's Homes in Kalimpong at the age of four months. He later discovered his parentage while going through the files at the Home. He eventually met his mother, when she was a widow living in poverty in Calcutta. He never met his father.

Lady Mountbatten, a patron of the orphanage, made note of the young Hutchinson's artistic talent. A portrait of Lady Mountbatten was commissioned, as was a portrait of the orphanage founder Dr. Graham. These early paintings sealed his artistic fate and future: both paintings still survive.