For me, Maggie Hambling, though I feel that Rembrandt would treat my sagging, greying, drooping, shedding, sprouting carcass with a bleak kindness.

MH would be fun to talk to during sittings, I think.

Francis Bacon - to portray me during work meetings.

Are we limited to those artists still living?

No, no.

Artemisia Gentileschi, if only because she's the only female portrait artist I can think of.

Beryl Cook

#6 - Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun would be a good choice too.

For myself, perhaps Hans Holbein. The exactness appeals.

But then so does Giovanni Boldini for the swagger and elegance. I can't decide.

#8:Oh yes. These horrors are before the Le Brun treatment:

https://www.alamy.com/rusportraits-v5-205-grafinia-varvara-nikolaevna-golovina-1766-1821-image456186277.html

https://www.alamy.com/portrait-of-varvara-golovina-1766-1821-xix-early-19th-century-1225-varvara-nikolaevna-golovina-image185607454.html

And this is the Countess looking lovely courtesy of Elisabeth:

https://www.madameguillotine.co.uk/2020/05/02/coun
tess-varvara-nikolayevna-golitsyna-countess-golovina/

Picasso, I am a bit wonky.

Giacometti, very slimming.

A bit of an unoriginal choice - Rembrandt. There is an amazing precision to Holbein, Durer and early Lucien Freud, but if you want the depths of the soul revealed then Rembrandt (or perhaps El Greco) is your man.

if you want the depths of the soul revealed

Anyone else want that for Shadders? Anyone? No?

That is kind of the point of a portrait painting. Otherwise you might as well take a photo.

Artemisia Gentileschi, if only because she's the only female portrait artist I can think of.

Gwen John.

if I couldn't get Holbein, I'd ask for Tintoretto.

I think Ronald Searle would do a good job.

I don't know. Fragonard perhaps.