"She is turning the idea of the male artist and the male gaze — which ... chief curator at the National Portrait Gallery. "She's flipping everything around in a feminist way.

The Male Portrait (2021), the portrait is "exceptional". "Portraits tended to be a bit more serious back then," she explains, but here we have flirty eyes, rosy cheeks and – above all – a ...

The bride-to-be refused to sit for the other (male) painters, so Marianne must attempt to do the portrait under the guise of being her chaperone, snatching glances as they walk along the clifftops.

According to an analysis, the portrait made the child look younger than his 3 or 4 years but was otherwise spot-on. This male portrait, painted circa A.D. 250 on limewood, was purchased in the ...