Defeated French general or noble Parliamentarian? Theresa May portrait divides opinion

Politicians love being immortalised on canvas and it appears the previous UK Prime Minister, Theresa Could, isn’t any exception. A putting picture of the somewhat austere politician pinged popped into our electronic mail field, dividing opinion with its El Greco-esque overtones. Painted by the Tehran-born artist Saied Dai, the £28,000 portrait of the MP for Maidenhead will ultimately cling in Portcullis Home, a key constructing on the Parliamentary Property in London. “Kudos should go to the artist… who has seemingly executed the not possible and imbued the previous prime minister—whose biggest admirers couldn’t accuse her of getting an inspirational management type—with an air that seems virtually noble,” wrote Emma Brockes in The Guardian, who requested additionally if we are able to actually overlook the anti-immigrant “go dwelling” vans and Brexit shenanigans overseen by Could. The response on social media was decidedly blended with one contributor on X/Twitter questioning if an AI programme had acquired the next instruction: “Create a portray of Theresa Could as a defeated French normal, returning dwelling after the Battle of Waterloo.” Speaking of former PMs, we simply can’t wait to see Liz Truss’s leaving portrait.