on the royal family’s official Instagram. “When I started this project, His Majesty The King was still His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, and much like the butterfly I’ve painted hovering over his shoulder, this portrait has evolved as the subject’s role in our public life has transformed.
Yeo added, “I do my best to capture the life experiences and humanity etched into any individual sitter’s face, and I hope that is what I have achieved in this portrait.
To try and capture that for His Majesty The King, who occupies such a unique role, was both a tremendous professional challenge, and one which I thoroughly enjoyed and am immensely grateful for.” Commenters were not kind to the portrait, which features a ghostly-looking Charles against a red backdrop.“Does the first painting represent all the blood on his hands?” one commenter asked. “100% thought this was satire,” another unimpressed fan wrote.
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