Equnimous 1' was one of the images created by Chris Levine when commissioned by the Jersey Heritage Trust to create a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. The portrait was to mark 800 years of allegiance to the Crown by the Island of Jersey.
The final portrait ‘Equanimity’ was presented to the National Portrait Gallery by the people of Jersey in 2011. In 2012 it was repurposed in a new work, ‘The Diamond Queen’, featuring 1,100 white diamonds, created with the London jeweller Asprey; and it has appeared on a holographic £10 Jersey stamp and the £100 Jersey banknote.
An earlier version of ‘Equanimity’ had already toured to the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh; National Museums Northern Ireland, Belfast and National Museum Cardiff as part of The Queen: Art and Image exhibition. The exhibition also included the work ‘Lightness of Being’ by Chris Levine, an image derived from the sittings for Equanimity which depicts the monarch with her eyes closed.