The chair of the National Gallery names his favourite from among the 2,300 masterpieces — and it will come as a bit of a shock
As the National Gallery turns 200, the chair of its board of trustees, John Booth, chooses his favourite painting.
My Favourite painting series, from Country Life
As the National Gallery turns 200, the chair of its board of trustees, John Booth, chooses his favourite painting.
Christopher Price of the Rare Breed Survival Trust on the bucolic beauty of The Magic Apple Tree by Samuel Palmer, which he nominates as his favourite painting.
'Lesson Number One: it’s the pictures that baffle and tantalise you that stay in the mind forever .'
The artistic director of Sadler's Wells chooses a painting created 'purely to aid reflection and contemplation'.
The great architect Norman Foster — aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank — chooses a Lowry given to him as a present by his wife.
The composer Sir Karl Jenkins chooses an Italian painting which came to him in to his life in fascinating circumstances.
The Childs Farm founder on a 'bruiser' bull.
Military historian Allan Mallinson picks an image of 'faith, generosity and ultimate sacrifice'.
The actor Ashley Campbell on a work that 'explodes with vivid, almost graffiti-like strokes'.
Keith Halstead of the Royal Countryside Fund chooses a scenic image by Edward Seago.
CLA President Victoria Vyvyan selects a religious engraving by Albrecht Dürer.
Melanie Vandenbrouck, chief curator at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, chooses a Jadé Fadojutimi image.
The award-winning Nature writer and regular Country Life contributor John Lewis-Stempel chooses a bucolic scene with quite probably the longest title of any artwork ever to feature on this page.
Gavin Plumley, author and cultural historian, selects an unusual canvas with two painters credited.
Martha Lytton Cobbold of Historic Houses selects a magnificent depiction of the power of nature.
The journalist and art historian Nick Trend chooses a striking Jan van Eyck portrait.
Jamie Hambro picks Low Life by Edwin Landseer.
The thriller writer Felix Francis chooses a classic image by Munnings that 'perfectly sums up the excitement of horse racing'.
Hugo Barclay, director of the Affordable Art Fair, chooses an unusual Picasso.