George W Bush's talent as a painter finds an ironic muse: the combat veteran

In his new book Portraits in Courage, the subjects of the former president’s paintings are the very men torn to shreds, quite literally, by his own policyIt’s been just over five years since a hack of the Bush family emails exposed former president George W Bush as a dedicated student of painting. Since that unintended exhibition of early work – a series of self-portraits mid-toilette – the world has awaited the development of the artist’s oeuvre with bemusement, de