If you could commission your own portrait from any artist living or dead

[zippitippitoes]

who would you choose and why..any media you like sculpture, conceptual, photographic, video, painting

Tissot - those frocks
Zippitippitoes - you are surely not implying that enthusiasm for the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood wanes as you grow up - rather like fondness for Anais Anais
If I was a sculpture I'd fancy being done by Henry Moore or maybe Eric Gill.

Jane Bown or Sukhi Dhanda, good prtrait photograhers matbe not yet counted as artsists?- I'd love to know if it was possible to take a good photo of me!

Otherwise Carevaggio.

"otherwise Caravaggio"
said Blu, rather nonchalantly

hockney
Marslady, those pictures look very exciting, what a great idea. How much will it cost? (only tell us if you don't mind, of course)

hausfrau! how can you say that!!!!

Vermeer, or Rembrandt - cant believe nobodys said him yet!

Not as poorly as those poor people in the El Grecos though
Actually, the way I feel at the mo I think Joseph Wright of Derby is possibly the best bet.
Rembrandt did his best work on people he loved. You'd have to be Saskia I think NN

Lowry as am going through a Lowry phase just now Last year was a Paul Klee phase.

thank you Marina!
Rembrandt was good at seeing what people were really like - but Vermeer would paint me as I would like to be seen by others, ie calm, and a domestic goddess!

Don't think I'd fit in Lowry, too fat but would like to be photographed by Patrick Marchmellier (sp)?

Velazquez

or Goya

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Joshua Reynolds, after seeing his recent exhibition at the Tate. I would want to look like an English aristo with a fab dress and jewels.

either dali/william blake - love both artists. no other reason.

Reubens - I am the perfect shape hahahaha!

In my dreams I would be a Degas ballerina

I've seen a Renoir which looks astonishingly like me, would quite like to have that

Living artists, Gary Hume I think.

how gorgeous, to look like a Renoir! Id get a huge print of it and stick it on my wall, I must say!

Some delightfully decadent Rubenesque type thing with me lying naked on silk sheets, perhaps eating grapes

Is this you Jabberwocky

Another vote for John Singer Sargent.

Ace frocks and an air of extreme dignity. Makes a nice change from real life

definitely NOT Fragonard. Saw a portrait by him in the Pinakothek at the weekend - he could make Virginia Woolf look like a Spice Girl