The Young Officer — After the Old Masters

He has been sitting in museums for three hundred years, composed and correct and entirely out of reach. Fleming walks in, looks at him directly, picks up a loaded brush — and brings him thunderously, gloriously back to life. thick oil brushwork over classical portrait tradition Palette: Midnight blue · Gold braid · Rose brocade · Cream · Burnt orange · Burgundy · Dusty mauve · Warm flesh · Impasto white Mood: Classical portraiture reborn · Bold contemporary impasto · History made vivid and immediate