Bryan Organ av Charlotte Mullins, Chris Stephens, Tristram Hunt, Jon Snow

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<p>What unites the pop star Elton John, Britain¿s King Charles III, the former French president Fran¿s Mitterrand (1916¿96), and Mr. & Mrs. Sharples, pigeon fanciers in Lancashire? They all sat for distinguished British painter Bryan Organ. Born in 1935, Organ studied art at Loughborough College of Art and Royal Academy Schools before setting out to pursue painting as a full-time career. He received his first commission in 1967, and since then monarchs, politicians, artists, designers, and business executives from around the world have asked him to paint them. His portrait of Princess Diana attracted more than 100,000 visitors within the first 72 hours on public display in 1981. No other contemporary artist is represented with more works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.</p><p>Yet remarkably, no full-scale monograph on Bryan Organ has been published to date. <strong><em>Bryan Organ: Picturing People</em></strong> fills this gap, featuring around 80 of his po