Christian Furr

Christian Furr
Photograph of Christian Furr
Born	1966 (age 50–51) Heswall, Wirral, UK
Known for	Painting
Spouse(s)	Emma Furr
Website	Official website

Christian Furr (born 1966, Heswall, Wirral, England) is an acclaimed English painter. In 1995 he was commissioned to officially paint Queen Elizabeth II making him the youngest artist to date to have officially painted the Queen.

Furr was educated at Ladymount Primary School, Heswall and St Anselm's College, Birkenhead. He later did a foundation course at Wirral Metropolitan College and a Fine Art degree at De Montfort University.

In 1995, at the age of 28, he was commissioned by the Royal Overseas League to officially paint Queen Elizabeth II. HM Queen Elizabeth II chose Furr from a number of artists and the portrait was painted at Buckingham Palace. The portrait now hangs on permanent display at the Royal Overseas League headquarters in London and is viewable by the public.

In 2016 Furr inadvertently helped create a media frenzy when he expressed concern that the artist Anish Kapoor had gained the exclusive rights to 'the blackest black' Vantablack Furr, who had planned to use Vantablack in a series of paintings called Animals, told The Mail on Sunday: 'I've never heard of an artist monopolising a material. Using pure black in an artwork grounds it. All the best artists have had a thing for pure black – JMW Turner, Manet, Goya. This black is like dynamite in the art world. We should be able to use it. It isn't right that it belongs to one man.'

In 2014 Furr completed a portrait of Thomas van Straubenzee and Lady Melissa Percy)