{"id":815267,"date":"2026-10-27T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815267\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:20:08","slug":"shopkeeper-in-catford-immortalised-by-royal-portrait-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815267\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopkeeper in Catford immortalised by royal portrait artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A corner shop owner from south London has been painted by a royal portraitist in a project to recognise the impact of independent businesses in their local communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artist Nick Bashall, who painted Princess Anne, has depicted Kaual Patel, owner of Torridon Convenience Store in Catford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work will be revealed to the public in a new exhibition, Local Royalty, alongside paintings by other royal artists of pub, cafe and takeaway owners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event was inspired by research that indicated nearly 80% of the public believed independent businesses such as corner shops are underappreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A corner shop owner from south London has been painted by a royal portraitist in a project to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}