My Favourite Painting: Martha Freud
Artist Martha Freud on a hauntingly beautiful Da Vinci that 'reveals so much about his process'.
My Favourite painting series, from Country Life
Artist Martha Freud on a hauntingly beautiful Da Vinci that 'reveals so much about his process'.
Racehorse trainer Dan Skelton picks a classic Munnings image.
Designer Phillipa Lepley chooses a classic Degas image in which you can feel the energy and 'almost hear the pitter-patter of points.'
A painting by Aigana Gali is the choice this week, an image that 'evokes the duality of the physical world and spiritual beliefs, being and nothingness'.
Isabel Ettedgui, owner of clothing brand Connolly, chooses the Pech Merle cave painting: 'The time between us is so great and yet the language is so familiar.'
Sue Barnes, the founder of Lavender Green Flowers, chooses a compelling portrait by Thomas Gainsborough.
ISO Luxury founder Julia Carrick chooses a calming van Gogh painting that symbolises hope.
Turtle Bunbury, historian and television presenter, chooses one of the planet's most ancient artworks.
Designer Kiki McDonough chooses a classic London image by Claude Monet that was inspired during the French painter's family trip to England.
Andrew Love, adviser to The Ritz, chooses a picture he bought from an artist who used to exhibit on the railings at Green Park, right next to the famous hotel.
Restauranteur and writer Sally Clarke chooses The Great Piece of Turf by Albrecht Dürer, which depicts a jungle in miniature.
Sir Tim Laurence, husband of HRH The Princess Royal, on a haunting Rembrandt portrait.
Ronel Lehmann chooses a classic Henry VIII portrait 'whose eyes followed me, watching my every move'.
The artist picks a classic van Dyck portrait, whose 'flesh belies a beating pulse'.
'I now think that it was one of the key influences in my own development as an artist' Brian Ferry says of his choice, Manet's Olympia.
Peter Sheppard, The Norfolk Churches Trust, chooses a Venice 'snapshot' that still captures the character of the city more than 500 years after it was painted.
The philanthropist Finlay Scott chooses an unusual portrait of Whistler which captures some of the great man's spirit.
Tate Director Maria Balshaw picks a powerful work by Lubaina Himid, whose major solo exhibition will open at Tate Modern in November.
Mark Dowie of the RNLI makes an appropriately nautical choice: Cochrane’s Compensation by John Chancellor.
Baroness Lola Young chooses a picture by Sonia Boyce thats' 'about the invisibility of black women who neither had a place in feminism nor black liberation movements'.