"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 ...

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 ...