Portrait programme

Stuart Pearson Wright: A new portrait of Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was unveiled at the MCC Museum at Lord’s ahead of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy third Test match between England and India.

Painted by British artist Stuart Pearson Wright, the artwork captures a larger-than-life image of Tendulkar’s head and shoulders and will remain in the museum before being moved to the Pavilion later this year.

This is the fifth portrait of an Indian player in the MCC’s famous collection and the fourth painted by Pearson Wright. Unlike his earlier full-length paintings of Kapil Dev, Bishan Bedi and Dilip Vengsarkar, this portrait takes a different approach with a close-up composition and an abstract background.