The first official portrait of the Prince William and of Kate Middleton together. The Dukes of Cambridge were immortalized by the British artist Jamie Coreth and the painting, commissioned last year by Cambridgeshire Royal Portrait Fundwill be exhibited in Cambridge University Fitzwilliam Museum.
«Portraying the Duke and Duchess was the greatest privilege of my life », commented the artist, who met William and Kate before the museum rooms opened to the public.
“I wanted them to be take it easy and at the hand and at the same time elegant and solemn», Added Coreth, who portrayed the prince in a very realistic way, in a dark suit and blue tie, and the Duchess, in emerald green dresson a background greige like the historic buildings of the city of Cambridge itself.
“Being their first portrait together, especially now that they are Dukes of Cambridge, I wished that returned an image of great balance between their public role and their private lifeCoreth explained.
In an era in which we are bombarded with photographsand in which the images of the dukes – and of the duchess in particular – reach us everywhere, the idea of going to a museum to look at them in a painting it’s not that anachronistic as you might think. Because a protected painting in the rooms of a museum gives portrayed characters a sense of eternity and permanence that a photograph – especially nowadays which is usually glimpsed on a mobile phone screen – certainly cannot give. On the other hand, the popularity of the dukes will help – at least in the plans of the Cambridgeshire Royal Portrait Fund – the youngest to approach artat least out of curiosity.
For Kate Middleton this is a first time, but for William it is not the first painting. The prince was portrayed in 2010 with his brother Harry from Nicky Phillips (painting now preserved at the National Portrait Gallery of London), and then in 2014 alone, by the Cardiff artist Dan Llywelyn Hall.
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1/6The painting
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WPA Pool / Getty Images2/6Jamie Coreth in front of the first portrait on canvas of Prince William and Kate Middleton exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
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WPA Pool / Getty Images3/6The Dukes of Cambridge at the Fitzwilliam Museum admire their portrait painted by Jamie Coreth
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WPA Pool / Getty Images4/6Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge at the Fitzwilliam Museum where their first portrait together was unveiled today
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John Phillips / Getty Images5/6The first painting that portrays princes William and Harry together, created by Nicky Philipps and exhibited since 2010 at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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LEON NEAL / Getty Images6/6Welsh artist Dan Llywelyn Hall poses in front of the portrait of the Duke of Cambridge entitled Fatherhood and created in 2014
Source: Vanity Fair
