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Annette de la Renta C19th Sargent
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Doris Saatchi C17th Van Dyck
1986pencil on paper33 x 22.9 -
Hon. Edward Vaizey C17th Van Dyck
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Ken Ellis C19th Ingres
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Roberto Fainello C16th Titian
1986pencil on paper31.8 x 23.5 -
Tom Phillips C16th Raphael
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Sir Anthony Sher C15th da Messina
1986pencil on paper32.1 : 23.9 -
Oscar Neuman C19th David
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Richard Banks C17th Frans Hals
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Robert Melville C16th Moroni
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David Newman C17th Kneller
1986pencil on paper32.7 x 24.5 -
Pamela Brown C20th Sargent
1986pencil on paper31.5 x 23.5 -
Sir Peter Blake C16th Holbein
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Michael Leonard C19th Photo anon
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Richard Bairstow C16th Moroni
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Lady Anouska Weinberg C20th Sargent
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Bill Gibb C16th Van der Meulen
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Prudence Cuming C19th Photo anon
1987pencil on paper33 x 24.5 -
Richard Wunder C18th de la Tour
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Harry Ward-Bailey C19th David
1987pencil on paper
Portraits in Time
Every now and again I encounter a face that seems to be straight out of a portrait by one of the great artists of the past such as Holbein, Van Dyck or John Singer Sargent. To recapture this haunting sensation, I devised ‘Portraits in Time’, a set of drawings that pitches contemporary faces back through time to a period that better matches their facial characteristics. Adopting the style of an artist of the day, I use the illusionist technique of trompe-l’oeil to present my portrait as a reproduction, torn from the pages of a catalogue.
Often my subjects are intrigued to find how completely at home they seem in that earlier time - even more at home sometimes than in the present day! My portrait of George Hall for example, places him in the early eighteenth century. He looks so comfortable there, wearing a typical wig of the period, that after I’ve been looking at my drawing for a while, I have to struggle to return his face to the age we live in!