Muses, music and more in the frame at Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2020 show
By James Brewer
In a dreamlike shoreline vista, a clear-eyed young woman clad in diaphanous white reclines against a background of pebbled sand.
Her affecting reverie is envisioned in an oil painting that is among the prize winners in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020 at the Mall Galleries in London. The painting’s romantic title Sandancer distils the psyche of the contemplative belle...