Brand New!! Paul Emsley Together With The Duchess Of Cambridge - 2 Videos Together With A Drawing

Many people convey commented on Paul Emsley's portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge.

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
b.1982
By Paul Emsley (b.1947)
Oil on canvas, 2012
1152 x 965 (45 3/8 x 38)
NPG 6956 © National Portrait Gallery, London; 
A National Portrait Gallery commission 
given past times Sir Hugh Leggatt in retention of Sir Denis Mahon 
through the Art Fund
Below you lot tin sack stance two videos close the portrait together with the portraiture process.

  • The foremost is a video available via TheRoyalfamily channel on YouTube or the NPG website.  In this i Paul Emsley explains the procedure used for the portrait together with shows the photos he worked from.
  • The minute was created past times the Art Fund who helped fund the portrait commission.

For me both videos supply a much meliorate moving-picture exhibit of the portrait than that seen inward many of the photos.

I'm straight off wondering how many of those who wrote close the portrait did together with thence from the photographs rather than the videos.  (I exercise promise the NPG volition supplant their "for usage on a website" epitome - run across correct - which has completely lost the color which is together with thence evident inward the videos).

Can I recommend that both videos are viewed total enshroud as they supply a much meliorate appreciation of the portrait - inward which she does non await old!

The foremost portrait of The Duchess of Cambridge

The foremost video shows us:
  • the relative scale of the portrait
  • the photos Paul Emsley worked from
  • the agency he worked - together with the glazing inward sparse oils
We too listen to a greater extent than close a real of import concept behind the portrait - close how the Duchess of Cambridge wanted a natural portrait together with NOT i which showed her "on parade", every bit it were, inward her formal together with official role. 
"The Duchess explained that she would similar to endure portrayed naturally - her natural self - every bit opposed to her official self. She struck me every bit enormously opened upward together with generous together with a real warm person. After initially feeling it was going to endure an unsmiling portrait I intend it was the correct alternative inward the halt to convey her grin - that is genuinely who she is."
It strikes me that this determination shows us a adult woman amongst her ain independence of heed - together with it may good endure that people volition come upward to similar this portrait real much to a greater extent than inward the years to come.



The epitome was created in May together with June 201 from 2 sittings at Kensington Palace together with at the artist's studio inward the West Country, England, together with Kensington Palace - together with from photographs.

As e'er you lot can't musical rhythm out seeing the epitome inward individual together with you lot tin sack exercise that past times visiting the National Portrait Gallery inward London where it is straight off on display every bit business office of the Contemporary Collections inward the Lerner Galleries, Room 36, Ground Floor, National Portrait Gallery (Admission free)
The National Portrait Gallery’s epitome of its Patron was commissioned past times the Gallery, together with given past times Sir Hugh Leggatt, inward retention of Sir Denis Mahon, through the Art Fund.  The Duchess was involved inward the selection process, from which creative individual Paul Emsley, the 2007 winner of the Gallery’s BP Portrait Award competition, was chosen past times Director Sandy Nairne to pigment her official portrait.

The Art Fund Video

Below you lot tin sack stance a video created past times The Art Fund which farther explains the portrait - although it gets a niggling overblown inward my view.

The basic betoken though that this is a portrait of a novel Duchess at the showtime of her 'royal career' inward which she volition endure painted i time again together with i time again inward a much to a greater extent than 'royal' agency inward a real expert i - together with i which a lot of people missed who commented on this portrait on Friday.



A titular 'faux pas'?

I'm greatly intrigued past times the fact that both videos are referring to the portrait every bit "Katherine, Duchess of Cambridge" which is a term normally used for a divorced Duchess(!) - together with I beg to shout out both to Burke's Peerage on this topic!  (Readers may shout out upward "Diana, Princess of Wales" every bit the championship she assumed exclusively afterward her divorce).

A drawing of 'Katherine'

I may endure completely incorrect close this. I was too greatly intrigued past times a charcoal drawing of a immature lady called Katherine on Paul Emsley's website.  To my heed this bore a considerable resemblance to photographs of a younger Katherine Middleton.

It made me wonder whether this was genuinely the foremost fourth dimension she had sat for Paul Emsley - or whether she was a niggling to a greater extent than familiar amongst the operate of this artist.

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Note: Glasgow-born Paul Emsley (b.1947) grew upward inward South Africa earlier moving to England inward 1996. He won foremost prize inward the BP Portrait Award inward 2007 for his striking large-scale report of the seem upward of his neighbouring creative individual Michael Simpson. His previous commissions convey included the writer V due south Naipaul (2009) together with Nelson Mandela (2010). He is represented past times the Redfern Gallery of London together with is associated amongst Brundyn + Gonsalves Gallery inward South Africa. (www.paulemsley.com)


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