This paiting makes the Royal Society of Portrait Painters show
This painting of Miles Jupp has been chosen for exhibition at this year s Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual show.
It features the comedian in character as David Tomlinson in James Kettle’s play The Life I Lead, about the Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks actor.
He sat for painter Martyn Burdon backstage at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, in costume and between performances.
The comic said: ‘I’m so thrilled with the picture. It’s such a lovely thing to be asked to do. Although it’s of a man in a bowler hat and wing collar, it is still very modern.
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image captionAn NHS doctor Rich outside the Nightingale Hospital painted by Melissa Scott-Miller
Pictures of NHS heroes are to be the highlight of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition.
The show, which features around 200 works, opens at London s Mall Galleries next month.
A painting of a doctor outside London s Nightingale Hospital a by Melissa Scott-Miller is among the works that will go on display.
Artist Kate Newington s painting of a medic in PPE, titled Amanda, will also feature.
Artist Melissa Scott-Miller told BBC News her painting (seen at the top of the page) came about because like so many people, I was so moved by the bravery and selflessness of anyone involved in the medical profession helping save lives and felt so powerless, just painting away in my flat/studio .
The show, which features around 200 works, opens at London’s Mall Galleries next month.
A painting of a doctor outside London’s Nightingale Hospital by Melissa Scott-Miller is among the paintings that will go on display.
Kate Newington’s Amanda (Kate Newington/PA)
Kate Newington’s painting of a medic in PPE, titled Amanda, will also feature.
The exhibition “celebrates the diversity” of the genre of portraiture, according to a statement from the society.
A new £20,000 Wiliiam Lock Portrait Prize will be awarded to one of the artists featured in the exhibiiton, in addition to the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture.