My Favourite Painting

My Favourite Painting: Ned Denny

The poet chooses a wintry Pissarro that captures the season perfectly.

My Favourite Painting: Cressida Cowell

Children's author Cressida Cowell picks one of the great depictions of St George's defining moment.

My favourite painting: William Agnew

William Agnew chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.

My Favourite Painting: Nick Herbert

Lord Herbert of South Downs chooses a classic Velázquez image which paints the Son of God as 'the most beautiful creature that God ever created'.

My Favourite Painting: Kit Kemp

Designer and author Kit Kemp chooses Lucy Kemp-Welch's The Straw Ride, a study of the horses of the First World War.

My Favourite Painting: Michael Sandle

Sculptor and draughtsman Michael Sandle chooses a haunting Arctic image by Caspar David Friedrich.

My Favourite Painting: Deborah Swallow

Professor Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld Institute chooses an image by Oskar Kokoschka.

My Favourite Painting: Norman Hammond

Norman Hammond, the archaeology correspondent of The Times chooses a work by Michael Ayrton.

My Favourite Painting: Sarah Fletcher

Sarah Fletcher, the high mistress of St Paul's Girls' School, chooses a picture that hangs in her very own office.

My Favourite Painting: Ronnie Wood

Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones picks his favourite painting for Country Life, an El Greco masterpiece that hangs in Toledo.

My Favourite Painting: Matthew Parris

The journalist, presenter and erstwhile politician chooses a lesser-known work by Edvard Munch.

My favourite painting: Emma Bridgewater

'For me, it’s like a prayer. Or a meditation,' says Emma Bridgewater of her favourite painting.

My Favourite Painting: Jane Glover

Musicican Jane Glover chooses one of the greatest works of art in Venetian history.

My Favourite Painting: Robert Adam

Architect Robert Adam chooses a portrait that brings a modern twist to one of the Western civilisation's oldest stories.

My Favourite Painting: Julian Sands

The actor Julian Sands chooses one of art history's most extraordinary archaeological finds: the Steppe Bison painted at the Cave of Altamira, which he had the good fortune to see in person.

My Favourite Painting: David Anderson

The director of the National Museum Cardiff chooses a portrait by Josef Herman of one of Wales's great modern poets.

My Favourite Painting: Alice Strang

Alice Strang of the National Galleries of Scotland chooses a 1920s work by Agnes Miller Parker.

My Favourite Painting: Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.

My Favourite Painting: Nick Hewer

Countdown presenter Nick Hewer is inspired by a recent trip to Japan to choose this iconic painting.

My Favourite Painting: George Plumptre

The chief executive of the NGS — and a regular contributor to Country Life — chooses a family portrait which hangs in his family home.