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Heimans's portrait of Queen
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it is one of many works of art which has been damaged while on public display. A court case ensued and the offender was jailed for a 6-month term. After 5 weeks of intensive work by the
Conservation Department at Westminster Abbey it was restored. The portrait is now back on display in the Queen's
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In 2016, Heimans painted a series of portraits of six authors who were reinterpreting
Shakespeare's plays to celebrate the playwright's 400th birthday, Shakespeare400. Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Tracy Chevalier, Gillian Flynn, Jo Nesbo and Howard Jacobson sat for him, and the paintings were
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exhibited at the Globe. Of his portrait, Jacobson said; "It's my soul. He's painted my soul". Author Anne Tyler said of
Heimans's painting of her "I felt when I saw my finished portrait that I truly recognised myself, in a way that I have never recognised my photographs."
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