Arriving at Jonathan Yeo’s west London studio in the pouring rain, I am expecting bare floorboards and north-lit windows. What I get is a slick, hangar-like space that would do for a particularly cool tech start-up. But then the star portraitists of history have always had digs fit for a king. Joshua Reynolds took a townhouse on Leicester Fields. John Everett Millais built himself a Kensington mansion. You can’t expect the great and the good to climb the stairs to a garret.
Yeo has painted everyone from the Duke of Edinburgh and the livewire model Cara Delevingne to David Attenborough, Grayson Perry, Nicole Kidman and the Queen (back when she was the Duchess of Cornwall). And, as of now, me.
Yeo’s portrait of Cara Delevingne
JONATHAN YEO
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