Arts and Antiques with Dr. Lori

The Art of Royal Portraits

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge had her official portrait unveiled at Lond's National Portrait Gallery, and Dr. Lori helps explain the art behind a royal Portrait.

The official portrait of HRH The Duchess of Cambridge was unveiled at London’s National Portrait Gallery on Jan. 11 and is currently on public display there. The portrait was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery through the Art Fund. The painting was painted by the BP award-winning artist Paul Emsley (born in 1947 in Glasgow, Scotland) who has also painted such notable figures as President Nelson Mandela and author V. S. Naipaul. Experts are categorizing the painting within the tradition of Italian Renaissance portrait master, Leonardo da Vinci citing a keen ability to capture likeness and the use of dark and light areas to convey drama to the image. Soon other royal portraits will be compared to this painting of the Duchess of …

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Adam Young

2:40 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013

Exactly WHY is this a front page story on the "Upper Dublin Patch???" There may be a lot of people in Upper Dublin who THINK they're royalty..................but they're not!   more ›