My Favourite Painting

My Favourite Painting: Tim Sainsbury

Philanthropist Sir Tim Sainsbury picks out a true Renaissance masterpiece.

My Favourite Painting: Robin Muir

Photographic historian Robin Muir chooses a portrait by Ambrose McEvoy.

My Favourite Painting: Floella Benjamin

Baroness Floella Benjamin chooses her favourite painting, a striking portrait which 'proves that talent and determination can transcend all barriers.'

My Favourite Painting: Sir Mark Prescott

Racehorse trainer Sir Mark Prescott chooses a haunting portrait.

My Favourite Painting: Tony Hall

Lord Hall chooses a masterpiece by Della Francesca.

My Favourite Painting: Sister Teresa Keswick

The lawyer-turned-Carmelite nun chooses Bathsheba at her Bath by Rembrandt.

My Favourite Painting: Rupert Uloth

'An alluring lightness of touch overlaid with skill and artistry.'

My favourite painting: James Fox

James Fox chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.

My Favourite Painting: Sheherazade Goldsmith

Sheherazade Goldsmith chooses an unusual abstract photograph that challenges what we mean by art.

My Favourite Painting: Ned Denny

The poet chooses a wintry Pissarro that captures the season perfectly.

My Favourite Painting: Cressida Cowell

Children's author Cressida Cowell picks one of the great depictions of St George's defining moment.

My favourite painting: William Agnew

William Agnew chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.

My Favourite Painting: Nick Herbert

Lord Herbert of South Downs chooses a classic Velázquez image which paints the Son of God as 'the most beautiful creature that God ever created'.

My Favourite Painting: Kit Kemp

Designer and author Kit Kemp chooses Lucy Kemp-Welch's The Straw Ride, a study of the horses of the First World War.

My Favourite Painting: Michael Sandle

Sculptor and draughtsman Michael Sandle chooses a haunting Arctic image by Caspar David Friedrich.

My Favourite Painting: Deborah Swallow

Professor Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld Institute chooses an image by Oskar Kokoschka.

My Favourite Painting: Norman Hammond

Norman Hammond, the archaeology correspondent of The Times chooses a work by Michael Ayrton.

My Favourite Painting: Bryan Ferry

'I now think that it was one of the key influences in my own development as an artist' Brian Ferry says of his choice, Manet's Olympia.

My Favourite Painting: Sarah Fletcher

Sarah Fletcher, the high mistress of St Paul's Girls' School, chooses a picture that hangs in her very own office.

My Favourite Painting: Ronnie Wood

Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones picks his favourite painting for Country Life, an El Greco masterpiece that hangs in Toledo.