Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434

Jan van Eyck, Man with Red Turban, 1433

Jan van Eyck, Margaret van Eyck, 1439

Jan van Eyck, the Erythrean and Cumaean Sibyls, on the outer shutters of The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432

Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432

Jan van Eyck, Madonna and Child with Canon Joris van der Paele, 1436

Robert Campin, Annunciation, 1420s

Robert Campin, Virgin and Child before a Firescreen, c. 1440

Rogier van der Weyden, The Magdalene Reading, 1438

Rogier van der Weyden, Annunciation, 1430s

William Holman Hunt, The Lost Child, 1861

Ford Madox Brown, ‘Take your son, Sir’, 1851–2

Edward Burne-Jones, Portrait of Katie Lewis, 1886

William Orpen, The Mirror, 1900

Benjamin Sullivan, Mum, 2009

Martin Rowson, ‘Bill Clinton and Tony Blair – the Special Relationship’, Guardian, 1996

Anthony Browne, from Willy’s Pictures, 2001