Previous Interpretations

My initial research into creating my own take on the 'Arnolfini Portrait' was to see how other artists had been influenced by it previously.
I have found quite a few paintings already, for instance:

#1

Anthony Brown, image from Willy's Pictures
(2001)

#2

Martin Rowson, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair-
the Special Relationship
(The Guardian,1996

#3

Linus and the Fell Good Factory,
Juno aka the Arnolfini Portrait (2008)

In images 1 & 2 the majority of the image have been kept the same, i.e. the clothing worn and the basic setting. Image 3, however has been completely reworked in a new era with only the poses of the characters and window placement the same. I dislike the complete disregard for the colour of the original image. What I like about all of these images, is that they have taken the Arnolfini Portrait and used it as a spring board for their own Art and Political statements.
What I have taken away from this study is:

• The importance of colour when setting in another period.
• As long as the window (natural lighting) placement is correct then the lighting for the image should work well.
• The poses of the two characters are very key to getting the image to look right, even when setting it at a different point in time.
• all of the objects and colours withing the original image are highly symbolic, and while the symbols may have change through history it is still very important to have them/new symbolic objects in my final design.