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Munch’s style of portraiture was divisive. “When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness,” the artist once said, per the Financial Times’ Jackie Wullschläger.
Historically, the paintings were used as a show of power. The earliest example in the royal collection is the state portrait of James I of England, James VI of Scotland, from 1620.
A painting of the monarch in the regalia of the crowning ceremony is a royal tradition. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London When King Charles III last year unveiled the first official portrait ...