Duchess of Cambridge

I've only seen it on the TV JO and that was bad enough.

It looked better on the television. Perhaps it just doesn't print well.

Something not quite right ... has he tried for a Mona Lisa look and just got sad and old?

Depressingly pedestrian I'm afraid. It could be an entry to a paint a Royal competition on a Saturday Morning TV show. Great portrait painters make an artistic statement as well as catching a likeness and this one is barely a likeness.

He hasn't captured her sparkle and yes the nose is wrong. poor Catherine - she must be so disappointed and not able to express it.

Rolf Harris would have done a better job - I bet he would have captured youthful vivacity rather then this seriously dull effort that completely fails to capture any hint of personality - she just looks drab. A good portrait reflects the sitter's personality.

Awful! She looks both puffy faced and pissed!

Well, she certainly would have had before she married royalty! Her old passport photograph couldn't have made her look much worse than this offering...

Does she have a passport?

Poor Kate. Her passport photo probably does her more justice.

The artist has said he changed the eye colour to make it fit in with the rest of the painting, but why would you want to do that?

And her right eye (the iris) is smaller than the left - bizarre!

And the pursed lips look is so inappropriate for a pretty young woman.

Just seen it again - definitely a deviated septum! I wouldn't be too happy about it if I were her

It's awful.

Yes, but you don't necessarily want a preview!

Mind you Riverwalk , don"t they say , we grow to look like our Mother"s .

At least it's marginally better than that terrible one of the Queen by Lucian Freud...

this review agrees with most of us!

hmm. yes. she does look a bit dead.

I don't like it, to me she looks 'dead' in it. I wonder what she thinks of it.

Hello grumppa - nice to meet you.

Too photographic

Not a good likeness!

Hello grumppa, I see that you're a newby, welcome, and I love your name!

you can buy it on a postcard!