Portrait

'I was transfixed by Portrait' HANNAH ROTHSCHILD‘Imaginative, absorbing, very moving’ MICHAEL PALIN'Quietly beautiful, deeply felt' JOANNE BURNBetween 1898 and his death in 1916, the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi painted more than two dozen pictures of his wife, Ida, seen only from the back.This is her story, told from the front.