BBC will not commission official portrait of George Entwistle

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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/05/bbc-portrait-george-entwistle[/url]
[quote]George Entwistle, who resigned after only 54 days as BBC director general at the height of the Jimmy Savile scandal, will be the first holder of the prestigious post not to have an official portrait since the second world war.

After months of speculation about whether the shortest lived director general would be painted for posterity, the BBC has confirmed that it has "no plans" to commission an Entwistle painting.

Traditionally, every director general has their picture painted after they have left office. But Entwistle's has been a conundrum for both him and the BBC and it is understood an agreement has now been reached that he will not have one.

Entwistle left the BBC in November 2012, but the brevity of his tenure and the subsequent row over his £450,000 payoff have made the prospect of spending more public money on a portrait a political hot potato.[/quote]

[Paul McCartney]

Good.