This is the portrait of an intelligent, thoughtful and educated sitter with no less than a degree in art history. It
Not Found better. We deserve better too, and so does the future.
This commission – Kate’s first official portrait – demanded
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of these artists would have produced something more taxing, deeper, and404
interesting than this. We could have been surprised by an artist with something to say.We are not asking for any surreal or bizarre interpretation but merely for something beyond a bog-standard
It would have been cheaper
and more honest to exhibit a photograph; indeed this portrait adds nothing that we didn’t already know from a million photographs. Even her smile is half-hearted. There is neither character nor personality here beyond the obvious. Neither is there gravitas, profundity or any sense of narrative. Instead it is the image we see repeated daily in our newspapers and magazines.Saving grace? It is not by Rolf Harris.
David Lee
The Jackdaw January 2013