King Charles 3rd and Queen Camilla inaugurate portraits that will be part of exhibition

King Charles 3rd and Queen Camilla inaugurated on Tuesday (6) their portraits in painting, a tradition of the British royal family. The paintings will be part of an exhibition in the central room of the National Gallery, of which the king is the royal patron, until June 5. Then they will go to the Buckingham Palace.

The paintings of the monarchs in costumes of the coronation ceremony is a real tradition. They were made by two different artists personally selected by both.

In Charles’s painting by Peter Kuhfeld, the king is shown with the insignia he used two years earlier in another coronation ceremony. In the image, the sunlight that enters a window makes its crown shine under a pedestal.

Already Camilla’s realistic painting, completed by artist Paul Benney, shows the queen wearing her silk crown dress and looking at the observer with her crown beside him. Portraits are part of a tradition of centuries.

In a press release, Kuhfeld stated that the painting took “more than a year and a half to complete” and that he “tried to produce a painting that was human and majestic, continuing the tradition of the royal portrait.”

Already Benney, who in 2015 painted Queen Elizabeth caressing a horse and, in 2022, portraits of Holocaust survivors, said that Camilla posed for him several times at Clarence House in London.