Fanny Rush is a London-based portrait painter, best known for her portrait of the cricketer Shane Warne in 2005.
Based in Chelsea, London, Fanny Rush is a portrait painter, the daughter of two artists, Peter Rush and Caroline Lucas and sister of the sculptor Joe Rush. She is also the granddaughter of the author Mary Norton best known for the Children's classics Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Borrowers.
Rush has previously worked as a TV art director and a fashion photographer.
Rush has painted portraits of:
Ambassador Robert Holmes Tuttle, US Ambassador to the UK. This portrait hangs at The American Embassy, London.
Sir William Castell, Chairman of The Wellcome Trust, Executive Director of B.P. and of General Electric, USA. This portrait hangs at The Wellcome Trust, London.
Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate and President of The Royal Society, London.
Sir Michael Dixon, Chairman of The Natural History Museum, London.
Sunil Mittal, founder Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Airtel Group, India.
Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch CBE, formerly UK Trade Minister and Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank.
Sharad Pawar, Minister for Agriculture, India, and President of the International Cricket Council.
John Studzinski CBE, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Blackstone Group, New York.
Oliver Stocken CBE, Chairman of Marylebone Cricket Club and of The Natural History Museum, London.
Kevin Ching C.E.O. of Sotheby's Asia, Hong Kong.
Shane Warne (2005), commissioned by Marylebone Cricket Club for the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London
Rush reportedly charged £17,000 for each painting in the early 2000s.
Published works include Painting the light by Fanny Rush, The Artist Magazine February 2015 and The Patience of Ordinary Things, published by Phaidon Press.
