People are much more complicated than that. I never bought that, partly because I was brought up around politics, I suppose. People are very vitriolic about him – they were taken in.
Despite Blair’s mistake, or perhaps because of it, Yeo is complimentary about his sitter.
With his second portrait of Tony Blair, the muted palette sets off a blood-red poppy on his lapel – a reference to his “foreign policy” as Yeo puts it. Some sitters, such as Jude Law, ask him not to make them look beautiful, as they want something that shows who they are, not how they make their living. Currently, Yeo is, if not the most powerful, then certainly the most well-regarded portrait artist in the world, having already had several retrospectives, including the one at the National Portrait Gallery.
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