My Favourite Painting
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My Favourite Painting: Tahir Shah
Author and film-maker Tahir Shah chooses a military portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: Philip Hooper
Philip Hooper of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler chooses a beguiling portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: The Duke of Northumberland
Ralph Percy, Duke of Northumberland, chooses 'Portrait of the artist with Nicholas Lanier and Sir Charles Cotterell', bought by one of his forbears for just £44.
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My Favourite Painting: Nick Ashley
Nick Ashley chooses Samantha by Alex Katz, an artist who made his name in New York's art scene of the 1980s.
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My Favourite Painting: Jemma Powell
The artist and actress Jemma Powell on a Spanish family portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: Oliver Mears
Opera director Oliver Mears chooses a classic anti-war painting.
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My Favourite Painting: Habda Rashid
Habda Rashid, senior curator at Kettle’s Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, chooses an image full of 'tension and intimacy'.
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My Favourite Painting: Clare Moriarty
Clare Moriarty of Citizens Advice pushes the boundaries of our feature by choosing not a painting, but a sculpture. Or rather, a series of thousands of sculptures: Anthony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles'.
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My Favourite Painting: Jean-Louis Sebagh
‘I love the beauty of the woman’s back; her elegant, naturally confident pose; and the fact that she is serenely contemplating herself.
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My Favourite Painting: The Duchess of Rutland
The Duchess of Rutland chooses a portrait of the woman who was her most eminent predecessor.
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My Favourite Painting: Clare Matterson
Clare Matterson of the RHS chooses an abstract image.
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My Favourite Painting: Cecilia McDowall
Composer Cecilia McDowall chooses a 15th century masterpiece by Fra Angelico.
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My favourite painting: Greg Pickup
Conservationist Greg Pickup chooses a portrait of an early gay rights activist that is simultaneously shabby yet charismatic.
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My favourite painting: Tessy Ojo
The chief executive of The Diana Award chooses a picture that will inspire you to find 'people who will help you stand tall and not make you shrink'.
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My favourite painting: Frances Spalding
Art critic and historian Frances Spalding chooses an unusual work by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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My Favourite Painting: Rachel Trevor-Morgan
The Queen's milliner Rachel Trevor-Morgan picks Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent.
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My Favourite Painting: Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
The landscape architect picks out a dramatic biblical image given new life by 'Il Fiammingo'.
