My Favourite Painting

'As a child I wanted to snuggle up with the dogs and be part of it': Alexia Robinson chooses her favourite painting

Alexia Robinson, founder of Love British Food, chooses an Edwin Landseer classic.

The Pre-Raphaelite painter who swapped 'willowy, nubile women' for stained glass — and created some of the best examples in Britain

The painter Edward Burne-Jones turned from paint to glass for much of his career. James Hughes, director of the Victorian Society, chooses a glass masterpiece by Burne-Jones as his favourite 'painting'.

'I can’t look away. I’m captivated': The painter who takes years over each portrait, with the only guarantee being that it won't look like the subject

My Favourite Painting: Rob Houchen

The actor Rob Houchen chooses a bold and challenging Egon Schiele work.

My Favourite Painting: Jeremy Clarkson

The chair of the National Gallery names his favourite from among the 2,300 masterpieces — and it will come as a bit of a shock

As the National Gallery turns 200, the chair of its board of trustees, John Booth, chooses his favourite painting.

'A wonderful reminder of what the countryside could and should be': The 200-year-old watercolour of a world fast disappearing

Christopher Price of the Rare Breed Survival Trust on the bucolic beauty of The Magic Apple Tree by Samuel Palmer, which he nominates as his favourite painting.

My favourite painting: Andrew Graham-Dixon

'Lesson Number One: it’s the pictures that baffle and tantalise you that stay in the mind forever .'

My favourite painting: Sir Alistair Spalding

The artistic director of Sadler's Wells chooses a painting created 'purely to aid reflection and contemplation'.

My Favourite Painting: Norman Foster

The great architect Norman Foster — aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank — chooses a Lowry given to him as a present by his wife.

My Favourite Painting: Sir Karl Jenkins

The composer Sir Karl Jenkins chooses an Italian painting which came to him in to his life in fascinating circumstances.

My Favourite Painting: Joanna Jensen

The Childs Farm founder on a 'bruiser' bull.

My favourite painting: Allan Mallinson

Military historian Allan Mallinson picks an image of 'faith, generosity and ultimate sacrifice'.

My Favourite Painting: Ashley Campbell

The actor Ashley Campbell on a work that 'explodes with vivid, almost graffiti-like strokes'.

Andy Murray: My favourite painting

My favourite painting: Keith Halstead

Keith Halstead of the Royal Countryside Fund chooses a scenic image by Edward Seago.

My Favourite Painting: Victoria Vyvyan

CLA President Victoria Vyvyan selects a religious engraving by Albrecht Dürer.

My favourite painting: Melanie Vandenbrouck

Melanie Vandenbrouck, chief curator at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, chooses a Jadé Fadojutimi image.

My favourite painting: John Lewis-Stempel

The award-winning Nature writer and regular Country Life contributor John Lewis-Stempel chooses a bucolic scene with quite probably the longest title of any artwork ever to feature on this page.

My favourite painting: Gavin Plumley

Gavin Plumley, author and cultural historian, selects an unusual canvas with two painters credited.