Marlene Dumas’ portraits of the writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), known as ‘Bosie’, illustrate that social attitudes do change
18 December 2021
Geraldine Swayne is a highly regarded painter known for her intimate portrait and figure paintings in enamel on copper, aluminium and canvas. Her subjects engage in everyday activities
6 September 2020
An exclusive, new exhibition from one of Britain’s foremost painters, Chantal Joffe is to open this Autumn at the Bristol’s Arnolfini.
20 August 2020
The first-ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin.
Open daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm
Between 2014 and 2017 Hedley Roberts produced a series of ‘non-portraits’ of lovers, friends, family, acquaintances and strangers. Roberts begins by working from photographic collages using source materials from social media sites or images sent to him by friends. Sometimes he begins with a photographic image of someone that he wishes to portray, more usually he begins with a collaged image or photograph of someone who looks similar to his subject. Occasionally he just begins.
5 March 2017
The first exhibition devoted entirely to portraits by Paul Cézanne will be mounted at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Cézanne Portraits will bring together for the first time over 50 of Cézanne’s portraits from collections across the world, including works never before on public display in the UK.
12 December 2016
The Picasso portrait show now at the National Portrait Gallery and the big Abstract Expressionist exhibition on offer at the Royal Academy are both worth a visit.
25 October 2016
Black and Asian lives in Britain from the 1860s through to the 1940s are explored in a new display at… Read More
19 May 2016
“As self-portraits these works are concerned not with self-image but with self-embodiment and how painting can materially express the experience… Read More
18 December 2015
Peter Blake: Portraits and People, will be the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s portraiture opens in London later… Read More
19 November 2015
The International news photographer René Burri has died age 81. Burri studied at the School of Applied Arts in his native city of Zurich
20 October 2014
Josephine Lyons’ next solo exhibition, Love in Palimpsests, opens 11th December at the Menier Gallery in Southwark and promises to… Read More
15 November 2012
The British artist Lucian Freud has left an amazing £96 million in his will making that the largest sum ever… Read More
30 April 2012
Lucian Freud: Drawings @ Blain/Southern – REVIEW ‘Everything is autobiographical. Everything is a portrait’ Freud claimed of his own work…. Read More
27 February 2012
Blockbuster Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition opens at the National Portrait Gallery, tracing a life-time’s encounter with human flesh The press view… Read More
8 February 2012
