The artist whose portrait of Kate Middleton has been roundly derided as amateurish and lacking any resemblance to Kate herself has said her intention was to capture the Princess of Wales’ “soul.” Hannah Uzor told Tatler magazine , who commissioned the portrait for its July cover: “It’s really important to capture the soul of the person, so I spent a lot of time looking [at Kate], looking at her pictures, watching videos of her, seeing her with her family, seeing her in diplomatic visits, seeing her when she’s rowing or visiting children in a hospice. It’s been really interesting for me to get a sense of who she is.
” Readers responding to her explanatory video continued to rubbish the picture—in which “Kate” is seen in a white floor-length Jenny Packham evening dress she wore in 2022—saying it bore no likeness to its subject. “I don’t understand this painting,” one commenter wrote. “I don’t see a resemblance to the princess in any way.
.. I understand the artist talking about layers of a person etc, but surely if the end product is such that if you can’t guess who it is, then it can’t be a success.
It is, after all, a portrait.” “I truly love the painting,” wrote one of a minority of Uzor’s supporters. “Art isn’t the same as photography, it doesn’t mean to represent person’s appearance exactly as it is but to show the mood, the aura, the feeling about the person that an artist draws! Frankly, I simply can’t understand the .
