25 MAY 2002, page 58

Looking At Ourselves

Mark Glazebrook on why portrait painting has such appeal I quickly forgave Roy Strong, shortly after he had succeeded David Piper as Director of the National Portrait Gallery,......

Raw Reality Of Life

Andrew Wordsworth on Lucian Freud, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year I t's a curious paradox that some of the finest studies of the English character have been painted......