Where the royal connections of the show are concerned, the emphasis could hardly be lighter, though the chance of seeing the triple portrait of King Charles I by van Dyck is not one to miss.

A triple portrait in a sense: an image that is both alluring and, in a way, sad.

They both wished that Gran would hide her triple portrait: Annigoni was definitely not with it.

Adam briefly described how the triple portrait had been slashed and added, 'D'you really expect me to believe that you had nothing to do with it?

The portraits are of: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, (triple portrait known as) The Liverpool Poets.

The famous marble portrait bust of Richelieu by Bernini stands beside the triple portrait by Champaigne that was sent to Rome as a model for the sculptor.

Mr. Goldfarb thinks that one of the profiles in the triple portrait was a workshop copy of a recently authenticated profile by Champaigne, which hangs on the other side of the bust.

Even when he did a more straight forward portrait, like the famous triple portrait of Tagore, Gandhi and Andrews, he gave it an almost iconic quality.

A good place to begin is at the Asia Society, where a gathering of Pop-inspired paintings opens, appropriately enough, with a triple portrait of Mao Zedong.

In 1946 he undertook a triple portrait of Bobby, Oska and Eric Verrico (plate 13) from a drawing now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.