The Turner Prize-winning artist's show at The Wallace Collection showcases his persistent 'anti-establishment stance' ...

Sir Grayson Perry is droll with the sparring themes of feminine rococo ... as ‘a nascent transvestite’, falling for the Boucher portrait of de Pompadour. The outfit, the textures, the perfection ...

Great entertainer that he is, the British artist doesn’t inhibit himself by pandering to his audience’s sense of their own sophistication ...

Twenty years later, arise Sir Grayson, kneeling before Prince ... is disdainfully never mentioned by his name in Perry’s autobiography, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl – yet he comes ...

It was a radical idea: give UK artist Grayson Perry, known for his cross-dressing ... which he uses for his self-portraits. "And then with that, he starts layering it with meaning, with symbols ...

Read Next: Grayson Perry’s Full English is an antidote to ... such as Francois Boucher’s portrait of Mme de Pompadour, (1759). “As a nascent transvestite, I was drawn to her frilly dress ...