![]() Aside from being strikingly beautiful, with those fiery eyes and powerful body language one wouldn’t dare argue with her, she is a true prima donna. ![]() The portrait above is Goya’s Dona Isabel de Porcel, c.1805 and is one of my favourites. Thus it has a haunting quality, sometimes melancholic, often sweet or humorous, and sometimes hugely intriguing. The experience of walking through the long corridors at the National Portrait Gallery, London, is a relatively spooky one row upon row of (mostly) sour faced kings, queens and nobles, all long deceased, staring down at me as I hurriedly make my way towards the exit! I may have a vivid imagination, but portraiture does have that strange power to immortalise a person for as long as the work of art survives. ![]()
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