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My Favourite Painting: Geraldine Collinge
Geraldine Collinge, the director of Compton Verney art gallery in Warwickshire, selects Pierre-Jacques Volaire's An Eruption of Vesuvius by Moonlight.
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My Favourite Painting: Rachel Podger
Rachel Podger, one of the world's leading violinists who specialises in Baroque music, chooses one of Vincent van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'.
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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'.
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My Favourite Painting: Rob Houchen
The actor Rob Houchen chooses a bold and challenging Egon Schiele work.
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My Favourite Painting: Jeremy Clarkson
'That's why this is my favourite painting. Because it invites you to imagine'
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'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.
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My favourite painting: Sir Alistair Spalding
The artistic director of Sadler's Wells chooses a painting created 'purely to aid reflection and contemplation'.
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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.
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My Favourite Painting: Joanna Jensen
The Childs Farm founder on a 'bruiser' bull.
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My favourite painting: Allan Mallinson
Military historian Allan Mallinson picks an image of 'faith, generosity and ultimate sacrifice'.
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My Favourite Painting: Ashley Campbell
The actor Ashley Campbell on a work that 'explodes with vivid, almost graffiti-like strokes'.
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Andy Murray: My favourite painting
Sir Andy Murray, the double Wimbledon champion, Olympic gold medallist and former world number one, chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.
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My favourite painting: Keith Halstead
Keith Halstead of the Royal Countryside Fund chooses a scenic image by Edward Seago.
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My Favourite Painting: Victoria Vyvyan
CLA President Victoria Vyvyan selects a religious engraving by Albrecht Dürer.
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My favourite painting: Melanie Vandenbrouck
Melanie Vandenbrouck, chief curator at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, chooses a Jadé Fadojutimi image.
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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.
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My favourite painting: Gavin Plumley
Gavin Plumley, author and cultural historian, selects an unusual canvas with two painters credited.
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My favourite painting: Sir David Hempleman-Adams
Industrialist and explorer Sir David Hempleman-Adams selects a beguiling Egon Schiele work.
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My Favourite Painting: Martha Lytton Cobbold
Martha Lytton Cobbold of Historic Houses selects a magnificent depiction of the power of nature.
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My Favourite Painting: Nick Trend
The journalist and art historian Nick Trend chooses a striking Jan van Eyck portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: Jamie Hambro
Jamie Hambro picks Low Life by Edwin Landseer.
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My favourite painting: Felix Francis
The thriller writer Felix Francis chooses a classic image by Munnings that 'perfectly sums up the excitement of horse racing'.
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My favourite painting: Hugo Barclay
Hugo Barclay, director of the Affordable Art Fair, chooses an unusual Picasso.
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My favourite painting: Greg Doran
Theatre director Greg Doran chooses a domestic work by one of the great masters.
