The National Portrait Gallery, London has unveiled a new portrait of Olympian and Wimbledon Champion, Andy Murray by Maggi Hambling. The multi-figured portrait will join the Gallery’s Collection, accompanied by four preparatory charcoal drawings from life completed in the artist’s studio in September last year. The painting and two of the drawings are now on public display in the Gallery until 3 May 2020.

Andy Murray has for many years been a hero for Maggi Hambling and in early in 2019 she discovered that he was interested in her work. Following Murray’s first visit to the artist’s studio in London, the two became friends and Hambling invited him to sit for a portrait. On the morning of September 9th 2019, Murray posed for a series of drawings wearing his Wimbledon whites and the painting then evolved.

Following its display at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the work will travel to the Scotland, Murray’s home country, where it will go on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.