A HISTORIC DUAL PORTRAIT OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY, WHICH SHOWS THE ROYAL BROTHERS IN MILITARY UNIFORM, HAS BEEN RECENTLY UNVEILED AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. WILLIAM AND HARRY, ARE DEPICTED 'IN CONVERSATION' WEARING THE FORMAL DRESS UNIFORM OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY'S BLUES AND ROYALS DURING AN IMAGINED MOMENT JUST BEFORE THEY LEAVE CLARENCE HOUSE TO TAKE PART IN THE 2008 TROOPING THE COLOUR CEREMONY. SANDY NAIRNE, DIRECTOR OF THE GALLERY WHICH COMMISSIONED THE ARTWORK, SAID THE ROYALS HAD SEEN THE DOUBLE PORTRAIT PRIVATELY BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND WERE 'VERY PLEASED' WITH THE WORK OF ARTIST NICKY PHILIPPS. THE PRINCES ARE CAPTURED WEARING THEIR HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY DRESS UNIFORMS, EACH WEARING THEIR QUEEN'S JUBILEE MEDAL. WHILE HARRY WEARS HIS AFGHANISTAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL, WILLIAM SPORTS HIS BLUE SASH AND STAR OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. PHILIPPS, WHO SPENT MORE THAN SIX MONTHS PAINTING THE ROYAL BROTHERS DURING FIVE SITTINGS WHICH BEGAN IN AUGUST 2008, SAID: 'I WANTED TO CAPTURE JUST WHAT WAS THERE IN FRONT OF ME, TO BE HONEST.' THE SECOND IN LINE TO THE THRONE IS PAINTED IN A CASUAL POSE LEANING AGAINST A DOORWAY IN CLARENCE HOUSE'S LIBRARY WHILE HIS YOUNGER SIBLING IS SEATED CLOSE BY AND SHOWN IN PROFILE. HARRY HAS A HINT OF A SMILE AND HAS HIS RIGHT HAND ON HIS LEG AND HOLDS A PAIR OF WHITE GLOVES IN THE OTHER. HIS BROTHER LOOKS TOWARDS HIM AND HOLDS HIS SWORD HILT IN HIS LEFT HAND AND HIS MILITARY CAP AND GLOVES IN THE OTHER. PHILIPPS WHO HAS PREVIOUSLY PAINTED A COMPOSITION OF BEST SELLING AUTHOR KEN FOLLETT, SAID SHE WAS MASSIVELY LUCKY TO GET THE COMMISSION.
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