You either love the red king or hate it!
THOSE IN FAVOUR...
WHAT an excellent Jonathan Yeo portrait of King Charles. It is vivid, dramatic, majestic, yet captures the twinkle in his eyes and slightly amused curl of his mouth.
Wendy doel, Hook, Hants.
I LIKE it. Very different for a formal portrait but why not? There is a gentle strength in his face but sadness in his eyes; and the hands including his permanent pinky ring are perfect, while the Monarch butterfly says so much.
JENNIFER A. TAYLOR, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
WHAT an amazing portrait. It seems to say, ‘forget the garb, let’s look at the man and appreciate what he is.’ The hands highlight the physical effort he has put in all his life to improve our environment and encourage young people. The face shows determination but also warmth and sensitivity.
eileen lord, Bolton, lancs.
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. ROYAL PORTRAITS ARE USUALLY SO BLAND BUT THIS ONE IS EXQUISITE.
JEAN MARCROFT, Spital, Wirral.
...THOSE AGAINST
INSTEAD of Just stop oil throwing a tin of red paint over a work of art, they commission Jonathan Yeo to paint King Charles as though someone has already done so.
MARTIN KIMBER, Brighton, e Sussex.
THIs must be a joke. I have never seen a royal picture so dire.
B. LARKIN, Burgess Hill, W. Sussex.
DID eco-warriors get to the King’s portrait with the tomato soup?
r. BArcocK, Seaford, e. Sussex. IT looks like some kind of picture advertising a horror film about King
Charles going to or rising from Hell. If I was this King I’d be looking for my money back – or was it us taxpayers that got ripped off again?
LIONEL MCMILLAN, Maddiston, Stirlingshire.
IT Is hideous and disrespectful but I expect compliments will follow.
R. WALLER, Waltham cross, Herts. IT LOOKS as if he was slaughtered and is lying in a pool of blood. BEV GRAVES, Herstmonceux, e. Sussex.
IT REMINDS me of the Turin shroud. JAN GRYCKIEWICZ, Tenby, Pembs.
MAY I have Jonathan Yeo’s contact details? I have to find a backdrop for our next production of Macbeth.
B. MCDEVITT, Birkenhead, Merseyside.
A GREEN background would have conveyed Charles’s love of nature.
cArolA MorTon, Hereford.
THE drapers’ Company should ask for a refund. did Mr Yeo previously paint buses for London Transport?
J. SHAW, Great Barford, Beds.
GHASTLY. Charles has a wonderful complexion but this makes him look wrinkled, blotchy and much older.
I. CROFT, Maidstone, Kent.
CHARLEs thought of Harry; the red mist descended; someone painted it. RALPH DONCASTER, Penrith, cumbria.