portrait painter

Yeo jokes: "If this was seen as treasonous, I could literally pay for it with my head, which would be an appropriate way for a portrait painter to die - to have their head removed!"

Opie was a British historical and portrait painter who portrayed many people, including British royals.

Artist Jonathan Yeo is one of the UK's best-known portrait painters - an art form, he argues, which is as important as ever in an era where tens of millions of selfies are captured every day.

Color, in visual art, was helped along by the American portrait painter John Goffe Rand.

The self-taught artist attempted university twice but left to travel to the US where he spent three months training under a portrait painter.