Many critics don't. Paul Emsley's portrait of the former Kate Middleton shows the 31-year-old royal against a dark background, her lips pursed into a wry smile, with an ethereal light against her ...

FOX News Magazine readers weren't the only ones who didn't like Kate ... it didn't affect me," says Paul Emsley, who was commissioned to create the Duchess' portrait last year.

One of the criticisms of Kate's portrait was that it made her look older than her 31 years. "I did not deliberately age her or anything like that," Emsley clarified. "I wanted it to be an ...

When the Duchess of Cambridge was presented with her first official portrait ... artist Paul Emsley's work as "brilliant, amazing, absolutely brilliant". But despite Kate's enthusiastic reaction ...

Absolutely brilliant,’ she told the artist, Paul Emsley, when she met him at ... The glittering sapphire and diamond earrings Kate wears in her portrait were once owned by Princess Diana ...

The artist who painted the much-mocked first official portrait of Kate Middleton has defended ... is because it doesn't photograph well. Paul Emsley told Hello magazine: "At first the attacks ...

Paul Emsley's portrait of the former Kate Middleton shows the 31-year-old royal against a dark background, her lips pursed into a wry smile, with an ethereal light against her face and hair.

Paul Emsley took several months on the painting, using a technique of building thin layers of oil and glazes on canvas. Emsley told BBC News that he wanted to highlight the Duchess' hair ...

by Scottish artist Paul Emsley, who also painted South Africa’s Nelson Mandela in his photographic style, was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London, where William and Kate saw ...

Many critics don't. Paul Emsley's portrait of the former Kate Middleton shows the 31-year-old royal against a dark background, her lips pursed into a wry smile, with an ethereal light against her ...

Paul Emsley says he won't allow the other ... PHOTOS: William and Kate: In Love . . . with Children! Kate, who called the portrait “brilliant,” impressed Emsley. “I found her to be remarkabl ...