Thursday 11 July 2013

Spot the chicken-man

I would love to get a portrait of myself done. One day. Before then I think I need to live a bit (a lot) more and collect eccentricities along the way.

At the Royal College of Physicians, they have portraits of all their presidents on the walls. I was quite surprised by the originality of some of them! In addition to being realistic portraits, they all reflect the personalities of the sitter.

I especially liked these two:

Probably difficult to see - but on the left you can see a family portrait and him (I'm assuming) skiing:


His love for the theatre was captured - amongst others - in a man wearing a chicken costume:
I just LOVE the chicken!

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