“The Brigadier,” was painted by Lucian Freud in 2003 – 4. It is a painting of an English Military man named Andrew Parker-Bowles wearing full uniform, with his medals clearly being accentuated on his chest. This man was a friend of the Prince of Wales. At first glance it seems as if the painting belongs with traditional portraits of Military men by artists like van Dyck and Sargent, but on second look, you get a sense of manhood that puts the figure in a nobler type of portraiture like those of Rembrandt and Goya.
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