by Becky » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:24 pm
Personally, I quite like this one. (portrait, I mean, haven't seen the doc). Makes him look like a real person. Severn/Reynolds were still in training as artists/ v young and inexperienced, and they traditional 'orig' portraits have always struck me as a bid weird looking. Like the only portrait of Jane Austen, you know very well no-one ever born quite looked like them. At least in this one he's human (though suspiciously handsome)