# Justin Mortimer

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'''Justin Mortimer''' (born 1970) is an English painter, recognized for his paintings of well known high society including [Harold Pinter](/source/Harold_Pinter), Sir [Steve Redgrave](/source/Steve_Redgrave) and [Queen Elizabeth II](/source/Queen_Elizabeth_II). He won the [National Gallery](/source/National_Gallery)'s [BP Portrait Award](/source/BP_Portrait_Award) in 1991.

==Early life and education==
Mortimer was born in 1970 in [Cosford](/source/Cosford%2C_Shropshire),<ref name="Flash 2010">Jane Neal, [http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=595&det=ok&title=JUSTIN-MORTIMER 'Justin Mortimer: This Could Be Home'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006065835/http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=595&det=ok&title=JUSTIN-MORTIMER |date=2014-10-06 }}, FlashArt, March/April 2010. Online article retrieved 2012-04-25.</ref> [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire), England.<ref name="Bath 2013">Marianne Sweet, [http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Artist-Justin-Mortimer/story-20244389-detail/story.html 'Artist Justin Mortimer'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923182634/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Artist-Justin-Mortimer/story-20244389-detail/story.html |date=2015-09-23 }}, Bath Chronicle, 30 November 2013. Online article retrieved 2014-10-05.</ref> His family lived in [Somerset](/source/Somerset) and [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall) and Mortimer went to [Wells Cathedral School](/source/Wells_Cathedral_School).<ref name="Bath 2013" /> He studied at the [Slade School of Art](/source/Slade_School_of_Art) from 1988 to 1992.<ref name="Artnet profile">[http://www.artnet.com/artists/justin-mortimer/biography-links Justin Mortimer Biography], Artnet.com. Retrieved 2012-04-25.</ref>

==Career and works==
Mortimer came to public attention when he won the [National Portrait Gallery](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_London)'s [BP Portrait Award](/source/BP_Portrait_Award) in 1991.<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp08056/justin-mortimer?search=sas&sText=justin+mortimer Justin Mortimer (1970-)], National Portrait Gallery website. Retrieved 2012-04-25.</ref> He subsequently was given a number of important commissions, to paint well-known public figures including [Harold Pinter](/source/Harold_Pinter), [Queen Elizabeth II](/source/Queen_Elizabeth_II), [David Bowie](/source/David_Bowie) and Sir [Steve Redgrave](/source/Steve_Redgrave).<ref name="Artnet profile" />

Mortimer [painted Queen Elizabeth II in 1998](/source/The_Queen_(Justin_Mortimer_portrait)). The commission marked her 50 years as President of the [Royal Society of Arts](/source/Royal_Society_of_Arts). Prue Leith, who arranged the commission, recalls the painting was controversial because it showed the Queen's head separated from her body.<ref name="Life on a Plate">Prue Leith, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iY_D6d4gAukC&dq=%22justin+mortimer%22+artist&pg=PT245 "Relish: My Life on a Plate"], Quercus (ebook, 2012), pp 311-312. {{ISBN|978-0-85738-565-9}}</ref>

Mortimer's recent paintings take on difficult subjects, including war, barbarism and death.<ref name="Flash 2010" /><ref name="LA Times 2011">[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/04/art-review-justin-mortimer-häftling-at-mihai-nicodim-gallery.html 'Art review: "Justin Mortimer: Häftling" at Mihai Nicodim Gallery'], LA Times, 14 April 2011. Retrieved 2012-04-25.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://justinmortimer.co.uk/ Official website]

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Category:Living people
Category:1970 births
Category:People from Cosford, Shropshire
Category:Artists from Shropshire
Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Category:English contemporary artists
Category:20th-century English painters
Category:21st-century English painters
Category:BP Portrait Award winners

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