Redone, hidden, burnt: seven famous subjects and the portraits they hated

Vincent Namatjira’s work Australia in Colour, which includes a portrait of Gina Rinehart, at the National Gallery of Australia. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Vincent Namatjira’s portrait of Gina Rinehart has found no favour with the subject, with the mining tycoon asking the National Gallery of Australia to remove the painting from an exhibition. But Australia’s richest woman is not the first person to take a painting of their likeness to task.

Here we take a look at seven notable examples.