:::This errant editor was busy elsewhere. Layout editors of good magazines, journals and other publications have for ages accepted the dictum that portraits or other images with a directional bias should face the text, but WP editors have been for the greater part oblivious of this, and indeed some of them vigorously claim that appearance is improved by outward-facing portraits. I certainly do not believe in or suggest that reversing portraits is the solution. The mess in the MoS with regard to placing of images results from its cardinal and indefensible rule "to start with a right-justified image". If one is obliged to follow that rule, then there is certainly no need to use a right-facing portrait, as is presently the case. You asked which portraits were facing outwards - the lead portrait by Sargent, Faure's wife, and Maurice Ravel. If you do some judicious swopping of the images to the left side of the article, it would be a great improvement. The portrait of Faure as a young man would be a better lead image. cheers