My Favourite Painting
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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.
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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.
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My Favourite Painting: Sir Tim Laurence
Sir Tim Laurence, husband of HRH The Princess Royal, on a haunting Rembrandt portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: Ronel Lehmann
Ronel Lehmann chooses a classic Henry VIII portrait 'whose eyes followed me, watching my every move'.
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My Favourite Painting: Lorna May Wadsworth
The artist picks a classic van Dyck portrait, whose 'flesh belies a beating pulse'.
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My Favourite Painting: Bryan Ferry
'I now think that it was one of the key influences in my own development as an artist' Brian Ferry says of his choice, Manet's Olympia.
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My Favourite Painting: Peter Sheppard
Peter Sheppard, The Norfolk Churches Trust, chooses a Venice 'snapshot' that still captures the character of the city more than 500 years after it was painted.
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My Favourite Painting: Finlay Scott
The philanthropist Finlay Scott chooses an unusual portrait of Whistler which captures some of the great man's spirit.
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My favourite painting: Mark Dowie
Mark Dowie of the RNLI makes an appropriately nautical choice: Cochrane’s Compensation by John Chancellor.
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My Favourite Painting: Lola Young
Baroness Lola Young chooses a picture by Sonia Boyce thats' 'about the invisibility of black women who neither had a place in feminism nor black liberation movements'.
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My Favourite Painting: Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.
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My Favourite Painting: Simon Mayall
Retired army office Sir Simon Mayall explains his love of a 'vibrant tableau summons up the exotic allure of India'.
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My Favourite Painting: Neil Mendoza
Lord Mendoza, provost of Oriel College, chooses 'The Painter and his Pug' by William Hogarth.
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My Favourite Painting: Xavier F. Salomon
Xavier Salomon of The Frick Collection chooses Allegory of Virtue and Vice by Paolo Veronese.
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My Favourite Painting: Guy Hills
'The large canvas encapsulates an era of elegant élan, of modernity and jazz that makes you want to jump in and join the party.'
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My Favourite Painting: Tim Sainsbury
Philanthropist Sir Tim Sainsbury picks out a true Renaissance masterpiece.
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My Favourite Painting: Robin Muir
Photographic historian Robin Muir chooses a portrait by Ambrose McEvoy.
