It has suddenly become the most embarrassing painting in the Vatican. But the portrait of Cardinal Pell — unveiled in the Vatican just two and a half years ago — now threatens to engulf one of the oldest and grandest Catholic orders in controversy.
For I can disclose that the portrait of 77-year-old Pell, who has just been convicted of historic sex offences, was commissioned following a fundraising event in London held by the Knights of Malta, the Roman Catholic order founded more than 1,000 years ago to care for the poor and the sick.
The order’s senior officers have included some of the most eminent figures in society, including Field Marshal Lord Guthrie and the late Hugh van Cutsem, one of the Prince of Wales’s close friends.
The portrait by Andrew Gow of Cardinal Pell, 77, unveiled in the Vatican two and a half years ago, was commissioned following a fundraising event in London held by the Knights of Malta, the Roman Catholic order founded more than 1,000 years ago
Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein, who for decades managed the finances of The Rolling Stones, was the Order’s Chancellor.
Andrew Gow, who painted Pell, explains that the identity of the person, or persons, who commissioned the portrait is a confidential matter. But he confirms that the commission arose following a Knights of Malta annual London fundraiser.
‘I partly donated an unrelated portrait,’ Gow tells me, ‘and the people who bought the portrait then asked me to do something much more elaborate.
I was in Italy painting with some other clients at the time, so I wasn’t at the fundraiser,’ adds Gow, who has painted several royals and aristocrats.
The portrait was completed while Pell, a former adviser to Pope Francis, was installed in ‘large and grand offices, two corridors from the Sistine Chapel’, and was unveiled there in 2016 to commemorate his inauguration as one of the Vatican’s most senior figures, Prefect of Secretariat for the Economy.
Gow, who has been ‘absolutely shocked’ to learn of Pell’s past, explains that his portrait indelibly connects its subject to the Knights of Malta. ‘He’s a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta, that’s the decoration around his neck.’
Yeti? No, it's just a Getty girl
Ivy Getty, 24, braving the wintry weather in Idaho
As a scion of the wealthy Getty dynasty, she can afford to cover up in the snow.
Ivy Getty, 24, braved the wintry conditions of Idaho this week in nothing more than a pink swimsuit, matching faux fur jacket and black faux fur boots.
‘I literally only have one pose and it’s this one,’ she jokes from her snowy environs.
Artist Ivy’s family has been beset wth tragedy. The brutal kidnapping and mutilation of her grandfather, John Paul Getty III, was turned into a recent BBC drama, Trust, starring Donald Sutherland as her great-great-grandfather J. Paul Getty.
Cara shows her softer side with actress Jennifer
Britain's highest-earning model Cara Delevingne might be known for her love of grunge but she showed off her more elegant side yesterday at Paris Fashion Week.
Cara Delevingne (right) and Jennifer Lawrence at the Christian Dior show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear on Tuesday
The 26-year-old was seated front row at the Dior show wearing a plunging pink pleated halterneck dress by the French design house.
Cara, who is dating U.S. actress Ashley Benson, was joined by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, 28, who opted for a grey tweed skater dress and black belt.
Charles to auction £9,000-a-bottle single malt whisky
Prince Charles is fond of a wee dram and the final 20 bottles of his own whisky will be auctioned off to raise money for a community near Balmoral in Scotland.
The Royal Lochnagar 30-year-old single malt is from his 1988 cask, which was produced at the distillery in Crathie.
Robert Lovie, of the Prince’s Foundation, says: ‘We are overwhelmed by the interest in His Royal Highness’s cask of Royal Lochnagar Scotch Whisky and would like to give every chance for people to own a bottle.’
A recent auction of bottle number one of the Prince’s single malt raised £9,100, and the foundation is releasing the remaining bottles, each with a starting price of £1,450. Cheers!
Why Rosie is Donatella's Oscar winner
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley turned heads in a bespoke silver Atelier Versace gown featuring a thigh-high slit at Vanity Fair’s Oscar party.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2019 on Monday. It was held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles
So delighted was designer Donatella Versace that she sent her style ambassador a huge bouquet of flowers and a thank-you note .
Devonian beauty Rosie, 31, who is engaged to actor Jason Statham, posted a picture of the white roses and lilies and the message sent from the 63-year-old. ‘You blew me away yet again! You are perfection in Versace,’ gushed Donatella.
George Clooney’s ex Lisa Snowdon, who is engaged to Yorkshire-born entrepreneur George Smart, is struggling to stay slim ahead of her nuptials this year.
‘I love food, all food, but chocolates are my weakness,’ the former model tells me at the Restaurant Association Gala Dinner at the Savoy.
‘The trouble is I can’t just eat one, I have to consume the whole box. I like smart restaurants but don’t mind admitting I have even been known to have a McDonald’s.’
Author Tom Bower is not worried about legal action following the publication of his excoriating biography of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
‘Corbyn doesn’t read books and therefore I have this wonderful feeling that perhaps there won’t be a complaint,’ Bower tells me at the launch of Dangerous Hero at Daunt Books in Marylebone.
‘The one target, after all these years, who won’t sue me.’
Loud-mouthed petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson isn’t afraid of alienating fellow pub-goers.
‘Anyone who’s good at darts MUST be a bore,’ the avowed rosé wine enthusiast espouses on social media.
‘Because who chooses to go to the pub to do maths? Why not just chat and laugh and drink?’
Radio 4’s Fi Glover has a new job suggestion for John Humphrys when he steps down from the Today programme.
‘I have an idea I’d like to run past him, combining our new tech with the very best of his talent.
It’s Gogglebox for the radio — a whole station devoted to listening to him shouting back at the radio from the comfort of his own home.
Isn’t that genius? All of the fun of John on the radio, without John actually having to go and be on the radio.’
Kate Beckinsale suffers for her art. The actress reveals she was hospitalised after collapsing on set in Africa while filming.
‘It was incredibly hot — so hot that I ended up getting taken to the hospital one day for passing out.
‘I just keeled over into this very nice, huge actor, which was lucky,’ explains Kate. ‘Friend for life!’
At least it wasn’t all bad. Kate, who has a 20-year-old daughter, Lily, with actor Michael Sheen, enjoyed going on safari when the cameras stopped rolling on her new Amazon series, The Widow.
‘I brushed a lion with a hairbrush at one point; he was chilling.’ Sounds like she got off lightly!
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