{"id":169322,"date":"2025-06-09T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169322\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T04:16:11","slug":"portrait-of-f1-champion-donated-to-national-motor-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169322\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of F1 champion donated to National Motor Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A portrait of 1992 Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell has been donated to the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned artist Anthony Lawrence&#8217;s depiction of Mansell was gifted by his family.<\/p>\n<p>The painting, originally created for the book &#8216;Champions&#8217; in 1992, becomes part of a special display commemorating 75 years of Formula 1 World Drivers&#8217; Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit, featuring nine iconic F1 cars and a simulator, runs until November 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25200517.national-motor-museum-honour-malcolm-campbells-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:READ MORE:\u00a0National Motor Museum to honour Malcolm Campbell&#039;s record;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0National Motor Museum to honour Malcolm Campbell&#8217;s record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior curator Gail Stewart-Bye said: &#8220;We are delighted to have Anthony Lawrence\u2019s work in our exhibition\u2014it seems a very fitting location to have the dramatic motorsport portrait on display.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Lawrence\u2019s daughter, Sara Lawrence said: &#8220;There is no more perfect home for this painting than the National Motor Museum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We as a family are absolutely thrilled that motorsport fans can enjoy the portrait as part of the museum\u2019s displays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Lawrence&#8217;s retrospective exhibition will also be showcased at the Palais des Vaches gallery in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A portrait of 1992 Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell has been donated to the National Motor Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[70698,4199,707,4200,70699,79,70700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-169322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-anthony-lawrence","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-nigel-mansell","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-the-national-motor-museum","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114651475744321050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}