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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Royal artist in £650,000 legal row over unique portrayal of late Queen
Artist Chris Levine is in a legal battle with The Jersey Heritage Trust, which, having commissioned him to create a picture of Queen Elizabeth, has accused him of exploiting it.
He produced the laser show for Kate Moss's 40th birthday party, conjured up an 'immersive, multi-sensory' exhibition for the Prince and Princess of Wales's friend and neighbour, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, and created what the National Portrait Gallery has called 'the most evocative image of a royal by any artist' with a holographic portrayal of Queen Elizabeth. I ask because the innovative Levine – whose celebrated image of the late Queen captured her, uniquely, with her eyes closed – is now the subject of legal action initiated by the very charity which commissioned the portrait in 2003. The Jersey Heritage Trust, which asked artist Chris Levine to create a portrait of the Queen to celebrate the island's 800 years of allegiance to the Crown, claims he has sold or 'otherwise exploited' 223 copies of the 'eyes closed' image, entitled Lightness of Being
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