The Naked Portrait
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, until 2 September, then Compton Verney, Warwickshire, from
29 September to 9 December
The advance publicity I saw for this on the whole excellently curated exhibition contained a health warning: ‘Please note this show contains nudity.

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