Does Anyone Like Kate Middleton’s New Portrait?

[Image: The Duchess of Cambridge by Paul Emsley]

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   THIS is what people are saying is hideous?? You’re right, the black kinda makes you focus on the creases and gives a...

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   I like that they actually give her creases in her face, that she actually has in real life, but I feel like the black...

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   “Fun fact: This portrait is, for the moment, housed in the same gallery as a rendering...a...

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14. paintedonwater said: Aside from the hairstyle, if anyone told me this was Kate Middleton, I’d tell them to get out of my office. She looks 15 years older here, and the jaw and eyes are all wrong.
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16. cocktailelder reblogged this from jazzcatter and added:

    Not an attractive likeness, a bit pinched in the mouth?

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    I’m not sure about this portrait....tight-lipped smile makes her look tense. The bags...

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19. exploreyourbackyard reblogged this from theatlantic and added:

    it seems as though they made her appear older than she really is.

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21. idlebicyle said: It’s really awful, it makes her look like an old woman with delusions of youth and grandeur. A woman who stinks of rothmans cat food and channel number five.
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24. grace--jealousy--wisdom said: Her face isn’t that fat or old looking. Painting fail!
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    She looks like a really old version of Ginny Weasley hahah

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28. calimie said: She looks 50! It’s terrible. I do like the expression.
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    What was the artist thinking …

30. jazzcatter said: I wonder what the artist was thinking …
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32. kayteepay said: no.
33. alexob said: I like the realism of the painting - her eyes specifically have been painted beautifully. However, somehow she looks like drunk in this portrait. it’s not really flattering.
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    Wow, really? That’s awful.

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    Well then. Hmm.

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    OMG, poor Kate.

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47. kctkd said: It makes her look old and the sneer doesn’t help.
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