Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge - formerly known as Kate Middleton - attended the royal preview of a retrospective of the work of artist Lucian Freud at Britain's National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday night.
The duchess, wife of Prince William, is a patron of the National Portrait Gallery and this event marks her first solo public engagement as a royal.
Freud was the most renowned British portrait painter of the 20th century.
The artist, who died in July at age 88, approached the human body the way his psychoanalyst grandfather Sigmund Freud approached the mind - determined to unmask its secrets.
The exhibition features more than 100 paintings completed over 70 years, many of them nude studies of the artist's friends and family.
"Lucian Freud: Portraits" is open to the public from Thursday until 27 May, then moves to Fort Worth in the United States.
As she visited, the gallery confirmed that the duchess will pose for a portrait in the near future, though no decision has been made on which artist will be commissioned.
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