Writers' portraits - Hilary Mantel

    I'm glad to read that Hilary Mantel is pleased with this portrait by the young artist Nick Lord. It is to go on show at the British Library later this month and will be the first image of a living writer to be hung there.

    Its subject said, "I didn't want to look as if I was just sitting, contemplating the daffodils, but as though I might have an impact in the world". I think she's got her wish.

Comments

[B R Wombat]

And it cleverly has an echo of the Holbein portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

[Cornflower]

Yes!