Irreverent portrait of Danish royals wins Australian art prize

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) — A portrait depicting Demark's Australian-born Princess Mary breastfeeding in sheepskin boots while her Y-front clad husband sips a beer has won Australia's premier satirical arts prize.

James Brennan's "The Official Portrait of the Danish Royal Family" won the annual Bald Archy prize, a spoof of long-established Archibald portrait prize, which was awarded last week.

Brennan, a 33-year-old railway worker, took delight in portraying the glamorous royal couple and their two children as a stereotypical Australian family.

In the painting, a seated Princess Mary is breastfeeding daughter Isabella while wearing a red flannel dressing gown and sheepskin boots.

Her husband Prince Frederik is leaning against her chair resplendent in white...