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Jonathan Yeo

June 2024

  • Jonathan Yeo's painting of Sir David Attenborough

    ‘Infectious enthusiasm’: Jonathan Yeo’s green portrait of David Attenborough unveiled

    Painting of 98-year-old broadcaster, commissioned by Royal Society, goes on public display 2 July

May 2024

  • Artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Yeo's portrait in Buckingham Palace

    Too bald, too mad, too red … How royal portraits get it so wrong

  • detail from Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of King Charles III.

    Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III review – a formulaic bit of facile flattery

September 2020

  • Artists' studios
    Artist 'Studio App' shows users virtually around Jonathan Yeo's workplace – video

    A demonstration video shows artist Jonathan Yeo's new 'Studio App' which allows virtual visitors to look around his studio and listen in to conversations with sitter Jamie Oliver

March 2016

  • We are not a muse... Cara Delevingne, painted by Jonathan Yeo.

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Cara Delevingne: more than a mere muse for male painters

    Celebrated portraitist Jonathan Yeo has called Cara Delevingne the “perfect muse”, as he unveils a series of paintings of the model and actor. This patronising word belongs in a Victorian era of deluded lust

February 2016

  • Actor Kevin Spacey

    House of art: portrait of Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood hung in Washington

    Kevin Spacey’s celebrated House of Cards character Frank Underwood finds a home among real US presidents at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

August 2015

  • Richard Bacon London Photograph by David Levene 15/4/15

    The Q&A
    Q&A: Richard Bacon, broadcaster

    ‘What did I want to be when I was growing up? A local radio reporter. Oh, don’t worry... I’ll get there’

June 2015

  • Left to right, James Lloyd, Clara Drummond, Catherine Goodman and Jonathan Yeo pose beneath portraits of Sgt Thomas Burke by Lloyd (left), trooper Cecil Newton by Peter Kuhfield and pilot Laurence Weeden by Martin Yeoman.

    D-day veterans' portraits by celebrated artists go on display

    Exhibition of paintings depicting D-Day veterans as they look today opens at Queen’s Gallery to mark 71st anniversary

June 2014

  • Beth Ditto

    Naked, in tears or dressed like Bardot: the secrets of the sitters

    Celebrities from Vivienne Westwood to Gabriel Byrne and Beth Ditto reveal what it's really like to sit for their portrait

September 2013

  • Press Preview For Artist Jonathan Yeo's Celebrity Portraits

    Jonathan Yeo's Malala Yousafzai portrait goes on show for first time

    Painting of Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban forms part of Yeo show at National Portrait Gallery

July 2013

  • Damien Hirst's portrait by Jonathan Yeo

    Damien Hirst's portrait by Jonathan Yeo is an 'ironic reflection'

    Six-foot-tall painting of Hirst in a chemical protection suit is the centrepiece of Yeo's exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

May 2013

  • Jonathan Yeo's portrait of Kevin Spacey as Richard III.

    Jonathan Yeo exhibition to include portrait of Kevin Spacey as Richard III

    Major display of works from well-known artist includes numerous numerous public figures

March 2012

  • Crisis Commissions at Somerset House - Yeo, Wearing, Gormley & Neelova

    Homeless is where the art is: the Crisis Commission at Somerset House – in pictures

  • Antony Gormley's Contract, 2011

    Artists come together in a Crisis for homeless exhibition

December 2011

  • Jonathan Yeo in his studio

    Jonathan Yeo gets under the skin

    He has painted intimate portraits of two prime ministers, royalty and a host of celebrities. Now Yeo's going one better, with a study of cosmetic surgery patients. He explains all to Patrick Barkham

September 2010

  • Tony Blair portrait by Jonathan Yeo

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Master manipulator: how Tony Blair is remaking his image

    Jonathan Jones: The former prime minister wearing a poppy in Jonathan Yeo's portrait was no coincidence. It was the first step in a deliberate plan to influence his political legacy

July 2008

  • Media Monkey
    In the best possible taste

    Rupert Murdoch has commissioned Jonathan Yeo, son of Tim, to paint Nicole Kidman to mark the birth of her daughter, Sunday Rose. We expect something more tasteful than Yeo's infamous portrait of George Bush Jr, lovingly compiled from a slew (if that is the correct collective noun) of money shots from porn mags. "It's early days and I don't want to talk about it in case that jinxes it," said Yeo. Daily Mail, p35

May 2008

  • Parks reject Yeo's genitalia deck chair

    The controversial portrait painter Jonathan Yeo's design for a deck chair for London's parks has been rejected on the grounds that it is too pornographic

January 2008

  • Lest we forget: the war blemish

    Oliver Cromwell insisted artists portray him 'warts and all'; Jonathan Yeo portrays Tony Blair war and all

August 2007

  • Art & design blog
    Yeo's portrait of Bush has no meaning

    Jonathan Yeo has fashioned the face of the American president from a collage of porn mags. But as satire, it fails to impress.

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