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Artist in record breaking attempt to paint Lenny Henry

A Shropshire artist was among 149 invited to take part in a world record attempt to paint Dudley's most famous son.

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Beverley's portrait of Sir Lenny Henry

Fine artist Beverley Fry was invited by Sky Arts to join scores of other painters to do a portrait of Sir Lenny Henry in under 60 minutes.

The project was part of a Guinness World Records attempt to see how many artists they could get in the same venue in an hour to paint a portrait of Lenny.

The attempt was part of the celebrations to mark ten years of the Sky Arts show Portrait Artist of the Year.

Lenny’s portrait by Morag Caister, last year’s Portrait Artist winner, is currently on display in the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery.