(ANSA) – LONDON, June 23 – First official portrait in the form of a painting for Prince William, second in line of succession to the British crown, paired with his wife Kate, or Catherine as she now prefers to be formally called in the palace notes. The work, created by the emerging English artist Jamie Coreth, is now exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum of the University of Cambridge, a city to which the two are linked by the royal title they currently bear: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Commissioned last year by the Cambridgeshire Royal Portrait Fund, it was then donated to the local county community. It is a celebratory oil, without wanting to appear excessively rhetorical. “Making this painting was the most extraordinary privilege of my life, I tried to fix a solemn and elegant image, but also relaxed and cordial. I wanted a feeling of balance between their public and private life”, he explained the painter at the BBC on the day the dukes visited the county.
Kate appears in the portrait in a long dress in shades of green, while William is dressed in dark with a blue tie and his left hand casually slipped into his pocket.
Both sketch a faint smile, closed lips, projecting their gaze diagonally to their right.
William, who this week turned the mark of 40 years of age by having himself portrayed for the official birthday photo with his three children (George, Charlotte and Louis), is thus framed together with his wife in a royal portrait as previously only granted to his grandmother or her father. Confirming a profile now heir to the throne in pectore, as Prince Charles is consolidated as de facto co-regent and seems to be getting closer to becoming king after the 96-year-old matriarch Elizabeth II. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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