Identity is a reflection on the representation of the image and how it drastically changes throughout time. It starts by noticing how royals are depicted differently nowadays compared to centuries ago by analysing two different but yet similar portraits. The first one is the one of Prince William and Kate Middleton by Jamie Coreth in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the other one is The Arnolfini Portrait by John Van Eyck.

Seeing a painting of contemporary royals in a Museum has became unusual because of the way medias changed. The german philosopher Walter Benjamin studied and wrote a lot about the huge impact that photography had on art. He wrote an essay entitled The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction explaining how photography forever changed the accessibility and perception of art.