Image: Saied Dai, ‘Theresa May’
Committee unveils portrait of former Prime Minister Theresa May
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A portrait of former Prime Minister and Home Secretary – The Rt Hon Theresa May MP – has been unveiled in Parliament, following a commission from the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art.
Painted by the critically acclaimed British artist Saied Dai, the portrait of the current MP for Maidenhead will eventually hang in Portcullis House, one of the busiest buildings on the Parliamentary Estate. Based on three sittings at the artist’s studio, the work took approximately a year to complete, and was accessioned into the Parliamentary Art Collection in the summer of 2023.
Saied Dai said:
“In this portrait, the aim was to produce not just a convincing physical likeness, but also a psychological characterisation, both individual and yet archetypal – imbued with symbolism and atmosphere. A good painting needs to be a revelation and also paradoxically, an enigma. It should possess an indefinable quality – in short, a mystery.”
5 September 2023
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