Martin Yeoman

Martin Yeoman
Born 1953 (age 63–64)
Surrey, England
Residence Warminster, Wiltshire, England
Nationality British
Occupation Painter
Known for Drawing the Grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II, Accompanying HRH Prince of Wales on official overseas tours.
Movement New English Art Club
Website martinyeomanartist.com

Martin Yeoman (born 1953) is an English painter and draughtsman who drew members of the British Royal Family. He was commissioned to draw the Queen's grandchildren[1] and accompanied Charles, Prince of Wales, on overseas tours as tour artist.[2][3] He teaches art at the Royal Drawing School and the New School of Art.[4][5]

Early life and education

Yeoman was born in Surrey in 1953. In 1973, Yeoman sold his drawings in India and Pakistan before returning to England to attend art school. He was Peter Greenham's guest student at the Royal Academy Schools. There, he won the Silver Medal for Drawing, the David Murray Landscape Scholarship, and the Richard Ford Scholarship which allowed him to study abroad in Spain.[2][6]

Career

In 1983, Christopher Wall of the National Trust gave Yeoman the chance to paint Basildon Park and Ashdown House. Yeoman was later commissioned for other paintings by the National Trust's Foundation for Art.[2] In November 1986, Yeoman accompanied Charles, Prince of Wales, on an official tour of the Gulf States to teach the prince to paint.[2][7][3] Yeoman also joined official tours to Hong Kong in November 1989 and India and Nepal in February 1992. In 1992, he was commissioned by the Royal Household to draw the grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II to honour the 40th anniversary of her reign.[2][1][8] The drawings were later shown on the Royal Landing at the National Portrait Gallery in 1993.[9] The drawings are now housed in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.[10] His painting, Salisbury Cathedral, created in 1994, is housed in the collection of Mompesson House in Wiltshire.[11] Yeoman's painting of Sir James Whyte Black was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery in 1994 for their permanent collection.[12] His painting of D-Day pilot Laurence 'Laurie' Weeden was commissioned by Charles, Prince of Wales, for the exhibition "The Last of the Tide" at the Queen's Gallery in Buckingham Palace.[13] One of Yeoman's self-portraits was bought by the Ruth Borchard Collection in 2016.[14] Yeoman occasionally teaches at the Royal Drawing School[4] and the New School of Art[5] and is part of the New English Art Club.[15] Yeoman won the Ondaatje Prize for portraiture in 2002[16] and the Doreen McIntosh Prize in 2016.[17]

Work in Collections

Selected exhibitions

Bibliography as illustrator

References

  1. 1 2 "Peterborough". The Daily Telegraph. March 5, 1993.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 HRH The Prince of Wales (1998). Travels With the Prince. Sheeran Lock.
  3. 1 2 Stephen Lynas (November 11, 1986). "The painter Prince". The Daily Mail.
  4. 1 2 "Martin Yeoman". Royal Drawing School.
  5. 1 2 "Martin Yeoman NEAC". The New School of Art.
  6. ↑ "Martin Yeoman". The Artist. October 1994.
  7. ↑ Andrew Morton (November 1, 1986). "Fashion note as Diana heads for the Gulf". The Daily Mail.
  8. ↑ John Cornforth (April 1, 1993). "Royal Challenge". Country Life.
  9. ↑ Brinsley Ford (1998). The Walpole Society.
  10. ↑ "Martin Yeoman". Royal Collection Trust.
  11. ↑ "Salisbury Cathedral". National Trust Collections.
  12. ↑ "Martin Yeoman". National Portrait Gallery.
  13. ↑ "The Last Parade". The Telegraph.
  14. ↑ "Martin Yeoman". The Ruth Borchard Collection.
  15. ↑ "Martin Yeoman NEAC".
  16. ↑ "The Ondaatje Prize For Portraiture". Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
  17. ↑ "2016 Prizes and Awards". The New English. June 16, 2016.
  18. 1 2 "Martin Yeoman, People of Today". Debretts.
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