1. Jonathan Yeo rose to prominence for having painted Kevin Spacey, Dennis Hopper, and Cara Delevingne, among others.
17 Facts About Jonathan Yeo
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Jonathan Yeo was the subject of a BBC Culture Show Special in September 2013.
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Jonathan Yeo's paintings are included within the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, and the Royal Collection.
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Jonathan Yeo was born in London in 1970, to Tim Jonathan Yeo, a Conservative MP.
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Jonathan Yeo's subjects include actors Dennis Hopper, Jude Law, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily Cole, Nicole Kidman, Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, Savile Row tailor Ozwald Boateng, the former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
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Jonathan Yeo was commissioned by the House of Commons as the official Election Artist for the 2001 general election, and he painted the leaders of the three largest parties.
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Between 2010 and 2012, Jonathan Yeo created works based on cosmetic surgery procedures.
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In 2014, the exhibition was shown at The Lowry Gallery in Salford and in 2015, it was on display at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark in honour of Jonathan Yeo having painted the first official portrait of the former Danish prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
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Jonathan Yeo has co-curated the clubs worldwide, and designed the now notorious, pornographic leaf wallpaper that adorns several of its walls, including the Dean Street Townhouse in London and Soho House, Berlin.
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Jonathan Yeo was a judge for the 2010 Art Fund Prize for museums.
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In 2014 Jonathan Yeo was on the panel of judges for the BP Portrait Prize.
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At the first of these exhibitions in 2008, Jonathan Yeo presented 'Blue Period' at Lazarides Gallery, owned by Steve Lazarides, a specialist dealer in outsider and street art, known for launching Banksy's career.
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Jonathan Yeo had two works involved in the dispute over the sale of the late Dennis Hopper's art collection.
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Jonathan Yeo was one of only three artists to have been commissioned by Hopper to paint his portrait, the other two being Andy Warhol and Julian Schnabel.
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NPG director Sandy Nairne was reported as being concerned about Jonathan Yeo pushing the porn collage theme too far saying 'the Bush collage was a riposte.
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Charles Saumarez-Smith, former Director of the National Gallery and Royal Academy, said of the porn-collage of Lucian Freud, 'Jonathan Yeo is the young rising star of portraiture and Freud is the acknowledged master.
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Malala Yousafzai revealed she was touched that Jonathan Yeo asked to paint her and 'honoured' that her picture would hang in the National Portrait Gallery.