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The ascendancy of psychological recognition as the final arbiter of artistic truth effectively means that a portrait which does not bring the great down to our level is in danger of being perceived either as a failure or a fraud. "They were like that!" exclaimed Anthony Williams, defending those controversial hands in this paper. It is essentially a problem of divided fidelity - is the artist to be true to Queen and country, or true to life? For Holbein, I doubt if this was quite such a difficult opposition, if it arose at all. Even though it is now conventional to read his portrait of Henry VIII as a covert revelation of brutal state power, it's unlikely that he consciously took the risk at the time. Kitaj voted for Clinton and wrote rather touchingly of his excitement at being in his presence.

The result might have looked like a caricature but it was one with obedient rather than insurrectionary motives.Both pictures demonstrate the uneasy dilemma that faces any good artist painting a portrait of someone with power. But looking at the image, you could see that the assembled dignitaries might have had trouble working out what to say next. The artist, granted an hour's sketching time in the Oval Office, appeared to have decided on a rather old-fashioned kind of portrait - an image of power and determination rather than a revelation of inner character. The result was genuinely startling - something like Desperate Dan after one of Aunt Aggie's hated make-overs - but I don't think there's any doubting the sincerity of its attempt at respect. We should take this with a pinch of salt, I think - unveilings traditionally demand a moment of contemplation and two seconds hardly sounds excessive.