My Favourite Painting

My favourite painting: John Lewis-Stempel

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.

My favourite painting: Gavin Plumley

Gavin Plumley, author and cultural historian, selects an unusual canvas with two painters credited.

My Favourite Painting: Martha Lytton Cobbold

Martha Lytton Cobbold of Historic Houses selects a magnificent depiction of the power of nature.

My Favourite Painting: Nick Trend

The journalist and art historian Nick Trend chooses a striking Jan van Eyck portrait.

My Favourite Painting: Jamie Hambro

Jamie Hambro picks Low Life by Edwin Landseer.

My favourite painting: Felix Francis

The thriller writer Felix Francis chooses a classic image by Munnings that 'perfectly sums up the excitement of horse racing'.

My favourite painting: Hugo Barclay

Hugo Barclay, director of the Affordable Art Fair, chooses an unusual Picasso.

My favourite painting: Greg Doran

Theatre director Greg Doran chooses a domestic work by one of the great masters.

My favourite painting: Sholto Kynoch

The musician Sholto Kynoch picks a Caspar David Friedrich landscape.

My favourite painting: Giles Coren

Giles Coren picks 'an oil sketch gone wrong' by his school friend Jonathan Yeo.

My favourite painting: Carmel Allen

Carmel Allen, managing director of Tate, chooses an unforgettable image from one of the Scottish Colourists.

My Favourite Painting: Levison Wood

The explorer Levison Wood chooses a dramatic portrait of war dating back 150 years.

My favourite painting: Claire German

Claire German of the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, chooses an incomparable Tudor portrait of one of the great men of his time: Holbein's portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

My favourite painting: Anthony Mould

The art dealer Anthony Mould chooses a rarity: a human portrait by Stubbs.

My favourite painting: Miranda Rock

Miranda Rock of the Burghley horse trials chooses a floral masterpiece bought almost 350 years ago by two of her ancestors.

My favourite painting: Rose Balston

Art historian Rose Balston chooses a Gentileschi classic.

My favourite painting: MOK O’Keeffe

The historian MOK O’Keeffe chooses a portrait which hangs in one of London's great houses.

My Favourite Painting: Graham Lloyd-Brunt

The designer Graham Lloyd-Brunt picks a calming and peaceful image.

My Favourite Painting: Freya Simms

Freya Simms of LAPADA chooses an exotic 17th century image.

My favourite painting: Oliver Spencer

Oliver Spencer of Favourbrook picks a painting of cricket with colours 'to sear into your eyes, burn into the retinas.'