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AnonymousUser-8 AnonymousUser-8

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I think the Gerald Brockhurst portraits are just fabulous, as are many of the pre Raphaelites and high Victorians such as Waterhouse and Millais before . I also rate the Doors 1st album. Bought when it first came out and still on my top 5 all time list. 

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Actually Russell I like your portraits. 
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Peter Smith

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A very interesting read! The bottom line for me is simply that a portrait should look like the person it depicts. This is my favourite, a self portrait by Elizabeth Louise Vigee le Brun.  

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I find many of them interesting and don't have a particular favourite. Too difficult to choose. I like both classical and modern portraiture. Slightly favouring classical I think.  Gertrude Stein. Picasso. Portrait of a Young Man. Raphael.
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Lewis Cooper

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One of the good things about doing something like this, is that it throws up names you'd forgotten or simply didn't know. Julie mentioned Laura Knight, a favorite.  How could I forget her?  She's an artist who often put her subjects in situations... ...this is her famous picture of Ruby Loftus, a woman doing men's work during WW2. Above...a portrait of an entire family in the great outdoors. Above....a self-portrait with one of her models.  Hugely controversial at the time. Above...a more routine portrait of George Bernard Shaw. Martin mentioned Jenny Saville.  I remember seeing her work in London, back when I got around more.  It had impact... I'm pretty sure she used herself as a model  some of the time...not sure about that, I don't know enough about her.  Yet the photos of her show a trim, slim young woman.  So clearly she's making a point. I'd never heard of Gerald Brockhurst.  What an artist!  That first post of Russell's is mesmerising.  A couple more... Then Peter's picture by Elizabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun.  What a charming self-portrait.  Obviously a gifted and fine looking young woman.  Peter's post shows a very modern looking young woman, she painted in the 19th Century. Three more random paintings I like... A portrait by Ilya Repin, the famous Russian artist... One of Jack Vettriano's paintings I like... A Seb Kruger (the great caricaturist) in a realist mode...

Jenny Harris

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I’m not keen on classical portraits.  My favourite portrait artist is probably Jonathan Yeo - I like the mix of abstract and realism in some of his work.  (Not keen on a couple of his most recent ones, though, of King Charles and David Attenborough - thought I’d mention that before someone else does!  - it came up when we looked at his work a while ago.)

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Peter Smith

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There are some clever folks out there! I'd add Berthe Morisot to the list, another of my favourites. Then there was a bloke called Renoir..........
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You are definitely an Impressionist fan Peter - but so am I.
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Lewis Cooper

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I like Jonathan Yeo too, Jenny.  I don’t like everything he does, but that’s true of most artists I admire.  The first two you posted are really good
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Peter Smith

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I hope it's not too late to add Pauline Laurens, born in Pars in 1850. This is a self portrait.  
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Lewis Cooper

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Never too late to see a good painting, Peter, and I like that one very much.  Wonderful delicate colours, and an expressive face.  I didn’t know the artist.  There’s a wealth of relatively little known artists out there producing super work.  It seems pot luck who becomes famous…or more likely, knowing the right people.  So much talent everywhere.  I’ll look up this artist…a good find.
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