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Marc	11-01-2013 01:23 PM

First official portrait of Duchess of Cambridge unveiled

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The first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge has been unveiled - and was described by Kate as "amazing".

Award-winning artist Paul Emsley created the large head and shoulders painting of the duchess set against his trademark dark background.

It was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, which Kate supports as patron.

At the Duchess' own suggestion it depicts her natural, not official, persona.

Kate, wearing a burgundy dress by Whistles, was joined by her husband the Duke for a private viewing of the painting before it went on display to the public this afternoon.

The royal couple spent around 10 minutes looking at the portrait privately then met Emsley and his wife Susanne and daughter Marie.

Kate has been suffering from a rare form of pregnancy sickness but looked well and smiled as she chatted to the artist.

She told him: "It's just amazing, I thought it was brilliant."

William also had high praise for the painting, saying: "It's beautiful, it's absolutely beautiful."

The Cambridges later attended a private breakfast reception at the London gallery to mark the unveiling.

Among the guests were Kate's parents Carole and Michael Middleton and her brother and sister Pippa and James.

She looks really old :-/

InOne

11-01-2013 01:26 PM

She looks like she's been on a 5 day drinking bender LOL

Saph	11-01-2013 01:38 PM

:laugh2::laugh2: thats hidious

MTVN	11-01-2013 01:47 PM

Makes her look really old

(just realised Marc already said this)

Kazanne

11-01-2013 01:51 PM

It's really good but DOES age her,the eyes need to sparkle and the skin is too sallow.

King Gizzard

11-01-2013 03:30 PM

I'd want my money back tbh

Marcus.

11-01-2013 03:36 PM

well it some thing

Niamh.

11-01-2013 03:37 PM

eek I wouldn't be happy with that, she looks like she's in her 40's there. She couldn't say much though I suppose :laugh:

Livia

11-01-2013 03:52 PM

Jesus... I'd be mortified... it's awful. Like everyone's said, it's put years on her.

Omah	11-01-2013 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5748865)

She looks really old :-/

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Originally Posted by Saph (Post 5748890)

:laugh2::laugh2: thats hidious

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 5748906)

Makes her look really old

(just realised Marc already said this)

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Originally Posted by Nathan (Post 5749197)

I'd want my money back tbh

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 5749215)

eek I wouldn't be happy with that, she looks like she's in her 40's there. She couldn't say much though I suppose :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 5749261)

Jesus... I'd be mortified... it's awful. Like everyone's said, it's put years on her.

Only the hair is hers, the rest is some haggard old biddy ..... :yuk:

Omah	12-01-2013 08:47 AM

Portrait of Duchess Is Unveiled, and the Criticism Is Withering

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/wo...ints.html?_r=0

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The painting, by Paul Emsley, was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday, and if nothing else, it successfully brought out the inner art critic in even non-art critics.

“I hate to be negative,” someone posted on The Guardian’s Web site, “but it’s really tragically awful.”

The biggest complaint about the work, a head-and-shoulders portrait, is that it puts about 20 years, and possibly 20 pounds, on the duchess, who is 31 and as slender as they come (despite being pregnant). It is somewhat hazy, as if it were a photograph that had been heavily airbrushed to disguise the subject’s age wrinkles.

Unfortunately for Mr. Emsley, who is unlikely to produce work that generates this degree of interest anytime soon, most art critics begged to differ.

“It looks as if the painter asked the subject to ‘say cheese!’ and then told her to scram and buy some clothes while he painted the photograph,” David Lee, former editor of Art Review magazine, said in The Daily Mail. “It is perfectly adequate for the boardroom of a supermarket but entirely inadequate for a national collection.”

Waldemar Januszczak, the art critic for The Times of London, said it was the boring type of royal painting “we’ve been really churning out for the last few hundred years in Britain.”

In The Guardian, Charlotte Higgins said the painting made the duchess look undead, like a character in one of the “Twilight” movies. And the Daily Telegraph critic Mark Hudson compared the work to a “mawkish book illustration” that could have happily been used on the cover of a romance novel.

:idc:

AnnieK

12-01-2013 08:51 AM

It really does age her....she has said she is really pleased with it but realistically she mut be mortified.

Jesus.

12-01-2013 08:57 AM

I'd still knock one out to it.

Marc	12-01-2013 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 5748906)

Makes her look really old

(just realised Marc already said this)

Thanks mate

AnnieK

12-01-2013 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ (Post 5752041)

I'd still knock one out to it.

:joker: Hope the artist sees this post....probably the best critique it will get

Marc	12-01-2013 08:59 AM

It's no anniek76 though..

AnnieK

12-01-2013 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5752045)

It's no anniek76 though..

Not sure whether to :love: or :nono: or :laugh3: to that Marc :conf:

Urgh smilie overload there

Marc	12-01-2013 09:04 AM

How about :elephant: ?

Jesus.

12-01-2013 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5752045)

It's no anniek76 though..

Does that mean I have to knock one out to Annie, too?

Give me 5 minutes - I'm not as young as I used to be.

Marc	12-01-2013 09:14 AM

.... Annie would you like to respond.. Jesus seems to be a bit more horny than the literature made out...

Kizzy

12-01-2013 10:18 AM

I like it, and don't happen to think kate is very fresh faced.
One thing I would change however is I wouldn't have gone with the lopsided smile, it is very natural but makes the whole thing unsymmetrical.

AnnieK

12-01-2013 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5752060)

.... Annie would you like to respond.. Jesus seems to be a bit more horny than the literature made out...

:blush: is all I can say

Kizzy

12-01-2013 10:21 AM

Omah	12-01-2013 10:32 AM

Kate's portrait – straight from the Twilight franchise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/ch...ht-paul-emsley

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Kate Middleton is – whatever you think of the monarchy and all its inane surrounding pomp – a pretty young woman with an infectious smile, a cascade of chestnut hair and a healthy bloom. So how is it that she has been transformed into something unpleasant from the Twilight franchise? The first thing that strikes you about Middleton's visage as it looms from the sepulchral gloom of her first official portrait is the dead eyes: a vampiric, malevolent glare beneath heavy lids. Then there's the mouth: a tightly pursed, mean little lip-clench (she is, presumably, sucking in her fangs). And god knows what is going on with the washed-out cheeks: she appears to be nurturing a gobbet of gum in her lower right cheek. The hair is dull and lifeless; the glimpse of earring simply lifts her to the status of Sloaney, rather than merely proletarian, undead.

:eek:

Niall

12-01-2013 10:33 AM

She looks really really old that's awful. :conf2:

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