Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first official portrait released

She’s got no toes!
Think her eyes are wrong.
Too dark a picture.

I hadn't noticed the toelessness.

I imagine Holbein and Gainsborough spinning in their graves.

I think the toelessness due to shoe being so high her foot is like a ski slope- mark my words that girl is heading for orthopaedic hell! Painting doesn’t do them justice IMHO

It certainly doesn't highlight the fact that they are, apparently, the new, young, modern face of the monarchy, to me.
It wouldn't look out of place with all the other fusty old portraits that hang around the palace walls.

I think it’s awful, wonder if they themselves like it ?
Would they have had choice to keep or scrap ? LOL

Yes presumably you have to just smile and ooh lovely.

Not too keen. It's more like a painting that's trying to be a photo. Kate's face and hair don't look like her. Would probably look more at home in Madame Tussaud's..

Absolutely ghastly! Too old fashioned and stuffy and doesn't even look natural, just an enlarged photo.. This is a young modern couple trying to bring the Monarchy 'up to date'. There were many other poses that would have been more natural and suited to them. Such a pity.

Awful. Kate should have Worn blue it’s her colour. Williams head seems to come in narrow at the ears making his head a weird shape.

Like a light bulb?

Clunk from "stop the pigeon".

Awful

I know I shouldn't but I can't resist it. Do you think there is some connection between one hand straying behind her back and the other one stuck in his pocket??? (Naughty, Naughty Glorianny !)
Does anyone know where it is going to hang (in an attic somewhere???)

no for me.. bad likenesses bad painting and absurd lighting on her breasts.

at Dilly saying William's head looks like a potato

So speaks the gransnet art appreciation group.

High brow we are.

*MissAdventure, yes and? This is publlic art and is free to comment by the public

Should we all have to have degrees in Fine Art before we dare comment n this rather pedestrian painting?

It was a joke, M0nica.
That's all.

MissAdventure

So speaks the gransnet art appreciation group.

Catherine has a degree in Art History!!
Is that why they both look slightly embarrassed as if they're holding back giggles?

That is my profound judgement.

I wonder what they think of the portrait, really?
I suppose they must like it?
Or do they get home and say "Did you see my head looked like a potato?"

As a work of art it fails , as a portrait it fails , as inspiration it fails spectacularly

I do actually have an art based degree

and I quite liked the painting but I do think his head looks like a potato