{"id":316110,"date":"2017-05-03T06:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316110"},"modified":"2017-05-03T06:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:45:02","slug":"national-portrait-gallery-acquires-painting-of-ed-sheeran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316110","title":{"rendered":"National Portrait Gallery acquires painting of Ed Sheeran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lx-commentary__stream lx-commentary__stream--pinned\" data-reactid=\".2d64kua0c8w.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$0.0.0.0.1\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream gs-u-box-size gs-t-events br-keyline\" data-istats-container=\"live-reporting\" data-reactid=\".2d64kua0c8w.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$0.0.0.0.1.0\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream__feed\" data-reactid=\".2d64kua0c8w.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$0.0.0.0.1.0.0\">\n<article id=\"post_590869c5e4b0e565bf442ae4\" class=\"lx-stream-post gs-u-align-left br-keyline lx-stream-post--has-tag lx-stream-post--pinned lx-stream-post--key-event lx-stream-post--has-meta\" data-reactid=\".2d64kua0c8w.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$0.0.0.0.1.0.0.$k590869c5e4b0e565bf442ae4\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__body gel-body-copy\" data-reactid=\".2d64kua0c8w.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$0.0.0.0.1.0.0.$k590869c5e4b0e565bf442ae4.3\">\n<div class=\"lx-rta \" data-reactid=\".2d64kua0c8w.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$0.0.0.0.1.0.0.$k590869c5e4b0e565bf442ae4.3.0\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-body\" data-reactid=\".2d64kua0c8w.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$0.0.0.0.1.0.0.$k590869c5e4b0e565bf442ae4.3.0.0\">\n<p>He&#8217;s all over the singles chart and now he&#8217;s all over the wall at the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The museum in London has acquired a new portrait of Ed Sheeran, painted by Belfast-based artist Colin Davidson.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Ed&#8217;s first ever painted portrait and measures four feet square &#8211; so just a little taller than Ed is (sorry Ed, joke mate).<\/p>\n<p>Ed sat for the artist at his home in Suffolk in 2015 for three hours, during which Davidson made twenty drawings from life and took reference photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Davidson said: \u2018When painting a portrait I am looking for the moment when the person is almost unaware of me being there and I feel I got it with Ed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I deliberately didn\u2019t want Ed to perform and that was odd for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there is a youthful aspect to the portrait but also something experienced beyond his years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s all over the singles chart and now he&#8217;s all over the wall at the National Portrait Gallery. The museum in London has acquired a new portrait of Ed Sheeran, painted by Belfast-based artist Colin Davidson. It&#8217;s Ed&#8217;s first ever painted portrait and measures four feet square &#8211; so just a little taller than Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[1084,3],"class_list":["post-316110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}