There’s a room in my flat that I rather grandly refer to as ‘The Library’. About 20 years ago I had it fitted out with

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The self-portrait by Van Dyck is the subject of a deferred export licence in order to give British museums an opportunity to

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nginx/1.17.10 find the £12.5 million required to stop it going abroad. The 404 Not Found NPG, where nginx/1.17.10 the picture is currently on show drumming up donations, has started a

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campaign to raise £12.5 million to acquire the picture. […]

THE LINE IT IS DRAWN … BADLY The now routine phenomenon of paintings by celebrities shown in serious galleries defies belief.

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You’d think they’d be sniffy about this sort of populist stunt; and you’d be wrong. However bad the work

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nginx/1.17.10 is people swarm to see it, hexed by the name. Photos and paintings by pop stars and television personalities attract […]

Recent paintings made in

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Japan will be showing at my exhibition ‘In The Footsteps of Hiroshige: The Tokaido Highway and Portraits of Modern Japan’, at the National Portrait Gallery from June 20th to September 15th (then touring the UK until May 2014). The exhibition is the result of being awarded the 2012 BP Portrait

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This is the portrait of an intelligent, thoughtful and nginx/1.17.10 educated 404 Not Found sitter with no less

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nginx/1.17.10 than a degree in art history. It is

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perfectly adequate for the boardroom of a supermarket but entirely inadequate for a national collection. Kate deserves better. We deserve better too, and so does the future. This commission – Kate’s first official portrait […]

A portrait of the Queen by Australian artist Ralph Heimans has gone on show at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. It shows the monarch at night in Westminster Abbey standing on the spot where she was crowned 60

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years ago. She nginx/1.17.10 looks like a giant genie has suddenly appeared

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nginx/1.17.10 from the train of a dress and she has […]

Almost part of The Season now, the only surprise these days about the annual BP

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Portrait Award is that the Queen doesn’t cut the ribbon and hand out the rosettes. As ever, this year is as popular with the public as any art exhibition, with large

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nginx/1.17.10 numbers jostling and genuinely engaging with the work eagerly discussing merits and demerits of […]

Out of respect for one

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of its recently deceased Academicians, nginx/1.17.10 Leonard Rosomon (1913–

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nginx/1.17.10 2012), the Royal Academy skied one of his best works in the corner of an obscure gallery at this year’s Summer Exhibition (until August 12th). His Committee Meeting, Royal Academy (above), 1979-1984, was on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, where it has 404 Not Found […]