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, Sir Steve Redgrave and Queen Elizabeth II. He won the National Gallery's BP Portrait Award in 1991.
Mortimer was born in 1970 in Cosford,[1] Shropshire, England.[2] His family lived in Somerset and Cornwall and Mortimer went to Wells Cathedral School.[2] He studied at the Slade School of Art from 1988 to 1992.[3]
