My Favourite Painting

My Favourite Painting: Laurence Cumming

Laurence Cumming chooses one of the few works attributed with certainty to Johannes Vermeer.

My favourite painting: Leonie Benesch

Actress Leonie Benesch, star of the new BBC adaption of Around the World in 80 Days, chooses a beautiful Art Deco image by Tamara de Lempicka.

My Favourite Painting: Luke Edward Hall

Designer and writer Luke Edward Hall chooses an image painted by a charismatic dandy known as ‘Bunty’.

My favourite painting: Timothy Mowl

Timothy Mowl chooses The Brera Altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, a piece which he calls 'The Early Renaissance at its most captivating'.

My Favourite Painting: Sir Andrew Gregory

Sir Andrew Gregory, head of the SSAFA, chooses Fabritius's famed painting, The Goldfinch.

My Favourite Painting: Jeremy Swift

Jeremy Swift, the actor made famous by Ted Lasso and Downton Abbey, chooses a striking modern work by Patrick Hughes.

My Favourite Painting: Martha Freud

Artist Martha Freud on a hauntingly beautiful Da Vinci that 'reveals so much about his process'.

My favourite painting: Dan Skelton

Racehorse trainer Dan Skelton picks a classic Munnings image.

My Favourite Painting: Phillipa Lepley

Designer Phillipa Lepley chooses a classic Degas image in which you can feel the energy and 'almost hear the pitter-patter of points.'

My Favourite Painting: The Marchioness of Northampton

A painting by Aigana Gali is the choice this week, an image that 'evokes the duality of the physical world and spiritual beliefs, being and nothingness'.

My Favourite Painting: Isabel Ettedgui

Isabel Ettedgui, owner of clothing brand Connolly, chooses the Pech Merle cave painting: 'The time between us is so great and yet the language is so familiar.'

My favourite painting: Sue Barnes

Sue Barnes, the founder of Lavender Green Flowers, chooses a compelling portrait by Thomas Gainsborough.

My favourite painting: Julia Carrick

ISO Luxury founder Julia Carrick chooses a calming van Gogh painting that symbolises hope.

My favourite painting: Turtle Bunbury

Turtle Bunbury, historian and television presenter, chooses one of the planet's most ancient artworks.

My Favourite Painting: Kiki McDonough

Designer Kiki McDonough chooses a classic London image by Claude Monet that was inspired during the French painter's family trip to England.

My favourite painting: Andrew Love

Andrew Love, adviser to The Ritz, chooses a picture he bought from an artist who used to exhibit on the railings at Green Park, right next to the famous hotel.

My favourite painting: Sally Clarke

Restauranteur and writer Sally Clarke chooses The Great Piece of Turf by Albrecht Dürer, which depicts a jungle in miniature.

My Favourite Painting: Sir Tim Laurence

Sir Tim Laurence, husband of HRH The Princess Royal, on a haunting Rembrandt portrait.

My Favourite Painting: Ronel Lehmann

Ronel Lehmann chooses a classic Henry VIII portrait 'whose eyes followed me, watching my every move'.

My Favourite Painting: Lorna May Wadsworth

The artist picks a classic van Dyck portrait, whose 'flesh belies a beating pulse'.