Sorry for the intrusion, this has not much to do with official portraiture but there is a figurative painter among the finalists of the Turner Price, the most important art prize in UK, the one who was won a couple of years ago by an empty room with the light going on and off, by the amazing title of on/off.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...ixartleft.html
Painting is not that dead, after all
Ilaria