 The studio was designed in collaboration with her architect husband Rufus Leighton-Pearce.A further important series of Royal Sittings were also taken when Wilding was based in America.These were eventually followed by the famous Wilding portrait of the newly ascended Elizabeth II that was used for a series of definitive postage stamps of Great Britain used between 1952 and 1967, and a series of Canadian stamps in use from 1954 to 1962.