The Mail has picked up on a BBC dilemma - should executives commission a portrait of George Entwistle, as they have done with every preceding Director General ?
The suggestion, from dog-with-BBC-bone freelance Miles Goslett, is that George should pay for it himself. I have a better answer - set an appropriate size. There used to be a constraint on how big the portraits should be - partially defined by the dimensions of the oak panelling in the Council Chamber in Broadcasting House, but more recently by the fact that artists up their rates for larger pictures. Famously, John Birt escaped the attentions of his paymasters in his sittings, and went large - 148cm by 123cm (estimated). Things were brought back to an appropriate scale for Greg Dyke - a mere 117cm x 86cm. Even Lord Reith was only 126cm x 100cm.
Expect to see the unveiling of an Entwistle mugshot in a year's time - 54cm x 54cm.
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