Career
He read Fine Art at the University of Leeds awarded a place by Professor Sir Lawrence Gowing, graduating in 1979. On 23 May 1990 Arts Minister Richard Luce Member of Parliament opened Mee"s one man show British Eminencies: Portraits of our Age at Sotheby"s London and unveiled his portrait of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth World War II The novelist Anthony Powell Companies of Honour wrote the accompanying catalogue descriptions of the thirty-one paintings. His sitters were: Her Majesty The Queen.
Lord Carrington Knight of the Order of the Garter Companies of Honour. His Royal Highness The Princess Royal.
Lord Wilson of Rievaulx Knight of the Order of the Garter.
Lord Home of the Hirsel. Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone Companies of Honour. Lord Armstrong of Ilminster Cabinet Secretary.
Baroness Park of Monmouth Principal Somerville College. Professor Dorothy Hodgkin Member of the Order of Merit Chancellor University of Bristol.
Lord Penney of East Hendred Member of the Order of Merit.
Lord Zuckerman of Burnham Thorpe Member of the Order of Merit. Admiral Lord Fieldhouse of Gosport. Admiral Sir John Woodward.
Sir John Harvey JonesChairman Imperial Chemical Industries. Sir Peter Walters Chairman Boite Postale. Lord Forte of Ripley.
Sir Yehudi Menuhin. Anthony Powell Companies of Honour. Sir Hugh Casson Companies of Honour PPRA. Sir Roger de Grey President of the Royal Academy.
Sir Richard Attenborough.
Sir John Mills; Sir Peter Hall Director National Theatre. Sir Robin Day; Sir Peter Imbert Commissioner Metropolitan Police.
General Sir Frank Kitson. Robert Runcie Military Cross Archbishop of Canterbury.
Neil MacGregor Director National Gallery.
Lord Denning of Whitchurch. And Lord King of Wartnaby. The Parliamentary Works of Art Committee commissioned Mee to paint Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Ministers Lord (Harold) Wilson, and Lord (Alec) Douglas-Home, Lord (Denis) Healey and Her Majesty The Queen.
On 28 September 1995 The British Red Cross unveiled Henry Mee"s portrait of Princess Diana at Christie"s London.
The Princess sat for Mee at Kensington Palace. September 2001 Fine Art Society London, retrospective exhibition Henry Mee Portraits of Eminent Britons.
Lord Melvyn Bragg wrote the catalogue notes for New British Eminencies. His sitters were: Governor of the Bank of England Lord (Mervyn) King.
Chancellor of the Exchequer The Right Honourable George Osborne Member of Parliament.
First Secretary of State Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs The Right Honourable William Hague Member of Parliament. Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice The Right Honourable Kenneth Clarke Queen's Counsel Member of Parliament. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London.
The Right Honourable Alistair Darling Member of Parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. General Sir Mike Jackson Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Defence Science Organisation Aide-de-Camp Doctor of Laws, Chief of the General Staff.
The Right Honourable David Miliband Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
The Right Honourable Lord (Chris) Patten Companies of Honour Personal Computer Governor Hong Kong 1992-1997, Chancellor Oxford University, Chairman British Broadcasting Corporation Trust. The Right Honourable Vince Cable Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Business, President of the Board of Trade.
The Right Honourable The Baroness (Eliza) Manningham-Buller DCB, Director General of MI5. The Right Honourable The Baroness (Privatdozent ) James of Holland Park Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Author.
Sir George Martin Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Beatles Producer, Parlophone.
The Right Honourable The Lord (Melvyn) Bragg of Wigton, Chancellor University of Leeds, Editor of the South Bank Show. Gerald Scarfe Commander of the Order of the British Empire RDI. Lord in Appeal in Ordinary Lord (Leonard) Hoffmann of Chedworth Personal Computer Bachelor of Civil Law Master of Arts.
Henry Mee is married with two sons and lives in Hampstead.
