Ed Sheeran

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© Colin Davidson

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Ed Sheeran

by Colin Davidson
oil on linen, 2016
50 in. x 46 1/8 in. (1270 mm x 1170 mm) overall
Purchased, 2017
Primary Collection
NPG 7035

On display in Room 33 on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery

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This portrait represents Sheeran in a moment of quiet introspection. Davidson commented that ‘there is a youthful aspect to it but also something experienced beyond his years’. The portrait is based on a sitting during which Davidson made around twenty drawings from life and took reference photographs.

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  • Edited by Rab MacGibbon and Tanya Bentley, Icons and Identities, 2021, p. 30
  • Rab MacGibbon, National Portrait Gallery: The Collection, p. 116

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