My Favourite Painting

Nigel Prince, director of Artes Mundi, on a mesmerising image by Anwar Jalal Shemza.

By Country Life Published 10 January 22

Laurence Cumming chooses one of the few works attributed with certainty to Johannes Vermeer.

By Country Life Published 13 December 21

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.

By Country Life Published 6 December 21

Designer and writer Luke Edward Hall chooses an image painted by a charismatic dandy known as ‘Bunty’.

By Toby Keel Published 29 November 21

Timothy Mowl chooses The Brera Altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, a piece which he calls 'The Early Renaissance at its most captivating'.

By Country Life Published 22 November 21

Sir Andrew Gregory, head of the SSAFA, chooses Fabritius's famed painting, The Goldfinch.

By Country Life Published 15 November 21

Artist Martha Freud on a hauntingly beautiful Da Vinci that 'reveals so much about his process'.

By Country Life Published 1 November 21

Racehorse trainer Dan Skelton picks a classic Munnings image.

By Country Life Published 25 October 21

Designer Phillipa Lepley chooses a classic Degas image in which you can feel the energy and 'almost hear the pitter-patter of points.'

By Country Life Published 18 October 21

A painting by Aigana Gali is the choice this week, an image that 'evokes the duality of the physical world and spiritual beliefs, being and nothingness'.

By Country Life Published 11 October 21

Isabel Ettedgui, owner of clothing brand Connolly, chooses the Pech Merle cave painting: 'The time between us is so great and yet the language is so familiar.'

By Toby Keel Published 27 September 21

Sue Barnes, the founder of Lavender Green Flowers, chooses a compelling portrait by Thomas Gainsborough.

By Carla Passino Published 20 September 21

ISO Luxury founder Julia Carrick chooses a calming van Gogh painting that symbolises hope.

By Carla Passino Published 13 September 21

Turtle Bunbury, historian and television presenter, chooses one of the planet's most ancient artworks.

By Country Life Published 30 August 21

Designer Kiki McDonough chooses a classic London image by Claude Monet that was inspired during the French painter's family trip to England.

By Country Life Published 23 August 21

Restauranteur and writer Sally Clarke chooses The Great Piece of Turf by Albrecht Dürer, which depicts a jungle in miniature.

By Country Life Published 9 August 21

Sir Tim Laurence, husband of HRH The Princess Royal, on a haunting Rembrandt portrait.

By Country Life Published 26 July 21

Ronel Lehmann chooses a classic Henry VIII portrait 'whose eyes followed me, watching my every move'.

By Country Life Published 19 July 21

The artist picks a classic van Dyck portrait, whose 'flesh belies a beating pulse'.

By Toby Keel Published 12 July 21