{"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\/2017\/05\/national-portrait-gallery-acquires-painting-of-ed-sheeran\/","title":{"rendered":"National Portrait Gallery acquires painting of Ed Sheeran"},"content":{"rendered":"
He’s all over the singles chart and now he’s all over the wall at the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n
The museum in London has acquired a new portrait of Ed Sheeran, painted by Belfast-based artist Colin Davidson.<\/p>\n
It’s Ed’s first ever painted portrait and measures four feet square – so just a little taller than Ed is (sorry Ed, joke mate).<\/p>\n
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
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
“I deliberately didn\u2019t want Ed to perform and that was odd for him.<\/p>\n
“But there is a youthful aspect to the portrait but also something experienced beyond his years.”<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He’s all over the singles chart and now he’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’s Ed’s first ever painted portrait and measures four feet square – so just a little taller than Ed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[1084,3],"yoast_head":"\n