Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels review – beautiful loners

National Portrait Gallery, London
A retrospective of the New York artist’s ethereal portraits is both fabulous and frustratingThe National Portrait Gallery’s mini-retrospective of New York painter Elizabeth Peyton offers a heart-swelling, eye-pleasing parade of exquisite faces, from the gifted and famous to the merely really good-looking.Peyton rose to fame in the 1990s for painting beautiful boys – from friends to pop stars – and has been stereotyped and belittled for it