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Australian-born newspaper publisher. Murdoch inherited the Adelaide News in 1952 and within a decade became Australia's second largest publisher. He acquired the News of the World in London in 1969, which at the height of the Profumo scandal had a circulation of six million. He bought the Sun in the same year and in 1981 his British subsidiary company acquired The Times. In 1989 he bought book publishers Collins and set up Sky television. His more recent acquisitions include Twentieth Century Fox, the Fox television network and the online community MySpace.com.One of three portraits of Murdoch by Yeo, from a series of sittings across two years.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

(Keith) Rupert Murdoch

Date

2005–2006

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 41 x W 61.1 cm

Accession number

6789

Acquisition method

Purchased, 2006

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

Jonathan Yeo

b.1970

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Paul Boateng Parliamentary Art Collection
Dr Tony Wood, Director of Luton College of Higher Education, First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Luton (1993–1998) University of Bedfordshire
(Keith) Rupert Murdoch National Portrait Gallery, London
Michael Parkinson National Portrait Gallery, London