It's a little like a face-off between the royal portraiture of Velazquez and one of Breugel's roiling village scenes.

The sole work remaining from his time in Paris is a bust of Louis XIV, which set the standard for royal portraiture for a century.

Leoni's commissions for royal portraiture in Spain were an extension of his Habsburg patronage.

It is noticeable that the young Elizabeth I did not sit for him, with the result that there was a sharp decline in royal portraiture during the 1560s.

Van Somer is said to have introduced regalia into royal portraiture, for example that of the Order of the garter.

Certainly, he was one of the few who painted the elite aristocracy of his day, and was responsible for some of the most magnificent royal portraiture surviving.

Rigaud's portrait exemplified the height of royal portraiture in Louis's reign.

The King's look of tender absorption makes this as telling, and as truthful, an image as any in the long canon of English royal portraiture.

During Akhenaten's reign, royal portraiture underwent dramatic change.

The room, ornate and vast, met the occasion: the daunting nature of the new King's responsibilities was shown by surrounding him with rich detail, flags and royal portraiture.