Cara Delevingne: more than a mere muse for male painters

Celebrated portraitist Jonathan Yeo has called Cara Delevingne the “perfect muse”, as he unveils a series of paintings of the model and actor. This patronising word belongs in a Victorian era of deluded lust Women are still fighting for full equality with men as artists, but there is one role in which the art world has always embraced them and still does: that strange entity of the “muse”. Related: Cara Delevingne: 'I'd love to punch a photographer, I dream about it at ni