Elizabeth Joy Peyton (b.1965) is one of the preeminent artists working today. She paints still lifes and landscapes, but above all, portraits: of friends, lovers, heroes, admirations, inspirations and fascinations. Her subjects include artists, activists, actors, athletes, dancers, musicians, queens, princes, politicians and poets. Captured from life, memory, literature and imagination, through found images and photographs, amongst many things her art explores love, individuality, beauty and the passing of time.

Napoleon by Elizabeth Peyton, 1991. Collection Sadie Coles

Frida (Frida Kahlo) by Elizabeth Peyton, 2005. Tiago Ltd "The Tiqui Atencio Collection". © Elizabeth Peyton

Portrait at the Opera (Elizabeth) by Elizabeth Peyton, 2016. Courtesy The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT. USA. © Elizabeth Peyton

Irises and Klara Commerce St by Elizabeth Peyton, 2012. Roman Family Collection

David, March 2017 by Elizabeth Peyton, 2017, Private Collection, San Francisco © Elizabeth Peyton

Created in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition is accompanied by a series of displays within the Collection, positioning Peyton’s art within the context of historic portraiture. Having occupied a central place within visual art since coming to prominence in New York in the early 1990s, her work demonstrates an intensely personal and increasingly expansive understanding of the genre. The displays can be found in room 2 with the Tudor collection, in room 6 with the seventeenth-century collection, and in rooms 21 and 24 with the Victorian collection.

Room 2

Left: Alizarin Kurt by Elizabeth Peyton, 1995, Private Collection. Courtesy The Brant Foundation, Greenwich,…

Room 6

Left: ISA GENZKEN, 1980 by Elizabeth Peyton, 2010. Private Collection
Right: Sir Anthony van Dyck by Sir…

Room 21

Left: Kiss by Elizabeth Peyton, 2019. Courtesy the Artist © Elizabeth Peyton
Right: Ellen Terry…

Room 24

Left: Twilight by Elizabeth Peyton, 2009, Private Collection. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin ©…

Room 35

Left: Practice (Yuzuru Hanyu) by Elizabeth Peyton, 2018, Green Family Collection © Elizabeth…

Elizabeth Peyton works