Dutch artist wins BP portrait award
Dutch artist Wim Heldens has won this year’s £25,000 BP award for his portrait of a young man.
Heldens, 57, took the prize for a portrait called Distracted, featuring Jeroen – a 25-year-old to whom Heldens has been a father figure since he was four.
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