Duchess of Cambridge’s Official Portrait (PHOTO)

Posted by: Spicy
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Jan 11, 2013
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Duchess of Cambridge Official Portrait Painting

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has been forever captured in an official Royal Family portrait.

Unveiled today (Friday, January 11, 2013) by Britain’s National Portrait Gallery, the portrait’s creator is Scottish-born artist Paul Emsley, and Kate is said to love the painting. “Absolutely brilliant,” is how she described it. Emsley said Middleton was a joy to have as a subject.

“The Duchess explained that she would like to be portrayed naturally – her natural self – as opposed to her official self. She struck me as enormously open and generous and a very warm person. After initially feeling it was going to be an unsmiling portrait I think it was the right choice in the end to have her smiling – that is really who she is.”

The first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge took three and a half months to complete.

Paul Emsley talks about meeting Kate and making the painting come to life:

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Peregrina

Oh, I think it’s horrid. One of the things I like about her is that she looks “normal” having lines as the rest of us do. But she has a naturally genuine smile that makes her lovely.
This picture looks like she hasn’t slept for a week and is desperately trying to hold in a shart. I don’t care if its the “official” portrait. Have it done again by an artist who can capture reality.
Peregrina

Oh, I think it’s horrid. One of the things I like about her is that she looks “normal” having lines as the rest of us do. But she has a naturally genuine smile that makes her lovely.
This picture looks like she hasn’t slept for a week and is desperately trying to hold in a shart. I don’t care if its the “official” portrait. Have it done again by an artist who can capture reality.
LEO

LIFELESS, GLOOMY. IT IS MOST UNFORTUNATE THAT THE DUCHESS HAD TO PRAISE THE ARTIST, AS SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALWAYS VERY POLITE.
LEO

LIFELESS, GLOOMY. IT IS MOST UNFORTUNATE THAT THE DUCHESS HAD TO PRAISE THE ARTIST, AS SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALWAYS VERY POLITE.

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