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There are many things for an artist to like about Ilaria's example painting (the feeling of volume, the color, the masses of form, etc).
However, to get back to what Julie asked at the start of this thread, I don't believe that a painting as loosely handled as this one would fly as a commissioned portrait, except with a small number of the most artistically sophisticated of clients.
Yes, we should paint in the style in which we love to paint, but as portrait artists we are also all "commercial artists" and there is still a client to please. Even the more impressionistically painted commissioned works I've seen have fairly tightly rendered faces.
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