Elizabeth Payton

Elizabeth Peyton is an american artist, born in 1965, paints empathetic portraits of friends, celebrities and politicians. She often works from existing images, like album covers and photos, and her subjects have included John Lennon and Prince William. Peyton typically imbues her figures with an idealized and sometimes androgynous beauty.

Her career was launched, a fact later endorsed by the art market where the price of her works has steadily increased (an oil on canvas representing John Lennon was sold for a record $800,000 in 2006). Works by Elizabeth Peyton are now in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.