In an immaculate seventeenth-century interior reminiscent of Jan Vermeer's painted rooms stands Robert Hooke, who died 300 years ago. He is equipped with a set of instruments, including the microscope needed for his Micrographia. Isaac Newton, whom some say is responsible for the loss of the only authentic painting of Hooke, lurks outside the window. Glancing out uneasily, Hooke teasingly spins his globe. This ingeniously contrived 'photographic' image (right) is Guy Heyden's winning entry in the competition “Portraying Robert Hooke – Recreating the Hidden Genius”. Heyden carries off the £500 prize, awarded by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Royal Society. The brief was to create a “replacement” portrait, not as a recreation of the lost picture but in a twenty-first-century style. Just as Vermeer used the high-tech of his day, a camera obscura, so Heyden has used a computer to create a 'reality' analogous to the optical realism of the paintings known to Hooke.