My Favourite Painting: Mark Hedges
Mark Hedges, editor of Country Life magazine since 2006, chooses his own favourite painting for one of his magazine's best-loved regular slots.
My Favourite painting series, from Country Life
Mark Hedges, editor of Country Life magazine since 2006, chooses his own favourite painting for one of his magazine's best-loved regular slots.
Writer and curator Gilane Tawadros chooses the harrowing Slave Ship by J. M. W. Turner.
Bangladeshi artist Rana Begum chooses Hand Inside by Ellie MacGarry.
The author Paula Sutton chooses 'Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle' by David Martin.
Orlando Rock, chairman of Christie's, chooses The Adoration of the Magi by Jacopo Bassano.
Dr Kate Pretty, founder of the Young Archaeologists' Club and former principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, chooses Gulf Women Prepare for War by Maggi Hambling.
Dr Jean Wilson, a specialist in the iconography and emotional history of English Renaissance funerary monuments, chooses Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines by Carlo Doci.
The author and paint company founder loves this Cubism-inspired still life for its colour and contradiction.
Interior designer Martin Brudnizki chooses Waking Up in Naples by Howard Hodgkin.
The director of London's Timothy Taylor Gallery enthuses about the connection between Heaven and Earth depicted in this gigantic, colourful work.
Tailor Richard Anderson picks an image of a smartly-dressed gentleman.
The racehorse trainer Mick Channon chooses a painting of a horse.
Charlie McCormick makes his choice: a Henri Rousseau classic.
Stylist and writer Virginia Chadwyck-Healey chooses an image that she first came across during lockdown.
Nigel Prince, director of Artes Mundi, on a mesmerising image by Anwar Jalal Shemza.
Laurence Cumming chooses one of the few works attributed with certainty to Johannes Vermeer.
Actress Leonie Benesch, star of the new BBC adaption of Around the World in 80 Days, chooses a beautiful Art Deco image by Tamara de Lempicka.
Designer and writer Luke Edward Hall chooses an image painted by a charismatic dandy known as ‘Bunty’.
Timothy Mowl chooses The Brera Altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, a piece which he calls 'The Early Renaissance at its most captivating'.
Sir Andrew Gregory, head of the SSAFA, chooses Fabritius's famed painting, The Goldfinch.