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Christopher Baker

Works featured in Portrait of the Artist at the Queen's Gallery. Details below.

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6 years ago

Lives of the artists: self-portraits and their stories

Artists have assumed many identities in paint, as a new exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery shows. Here are four self-portraits from the Royal Collection’s who’s who of great artists, and what they tell us about their makers.
Pablo Picasso, Woman in a Hat (Olga) (detail)

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Hats off to Picasso

Picasso’s friends and family are the focus of an exhibition showing how portraiture pushed the artist forward, writes Christopher Baker
Jean-Etienne Liotard, L’ecriture

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> 7 years ago

Jean-Etienne Liotard: pastel pioneer

The Swiss artist Jean-Etienne Liotard was one of the great portraitists of the Enlightenment. Christopher Baker introduces the idiosyncratic Orientalist whose travels through the courts of Europe and beyond resulted in works of exceptional delicacy.