My Favourite Painting: Tim Sainsbury
Philanthropist Sir Tim Sainsbury picks out a true Renaissance masterpiece.
My Favourite painting series, from Country Life
Philanthropist Sir Tim Sainsbury picks out a true Renaissance masterpiece.
Photographic historian Robin Muir chooses a portrait by Ambrose McEvoy.
Baroness Floella Benjamin chooses her favourite painting, a striking portrait which 'proves that talent and determination can transcend all barriers.'
Racehorse trainer Sir Mark Prescott chooses a haunting portrait.
Lord Hall chooses a masterpiece by Della Francesca.
The lawyer-turned-Carmelite nun chooses Bathsheba at her Bath by Rembrandt.
'An alluring lightness of touch overlaid with skill and artistry.'
James Fox chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.
Sheherazade Goldsmith chooses an unusual abstract photograph that challenges what we mean by art.
The poet chooses a wintry Pissarro that captures the season perfectly.
Children's author Cressida Cowell picks one of the great depictions of St George's defining moment.
William Agnew chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.
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'.
Designer and author Kit Kemp chooses Lucy Kemp-Welch's The Straw Ride, a study of the horses of the First World War.
Sculptor and draughtsman Michael Sandle chooses a haunting Arctic image by Caspar David Friedrich.
Professor Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld Institute chooses an image by Oskar Kokoschka.
Norman Hammond, the archaeology correspondent of The Times chooses a work by Michael Ayrton.
'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.
Sarah Fletcher, the high mistress of St Paul's Girls' School, chooses a picture that hangs in her very own office.
Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones picks his favourite painting for Country Life, an El Greco masterpiece that hangs in Toledo.