![]() ![]() His mother was a BBC radio producer who also went on to run many charities. Yeo’s father worked in the city (London) and later ran Scope the disability charity before his sojourn into politics. His diverse portfolio of portraiture has included Prince Philip, Kevin Spacey, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, supermodel Erin O’Connor and actor Dennis Hopper. He first took up art after recovering from Hodgkin’s disease when he was in his twenties. ![]() ![]() Yeo was born in 1970, the son of Tim Yeo a Conservative MP. Self-taught, he is particularly well known for his paintings of politicians, actors, artists, performers and even the Russian Mafia. Jonathan Yeo by Franca Gelfort in Namen von Circle Culture Gallery (Own work), via Wikimedia CommonsJonathan Yeo is acclaimed as one of Britain finest portrait painters. ![]()
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