John Cranch (1751–1821), painter, born at Kingsbridge, Devonshire, 12 Oct. 1751, taught himself as a boy drawing, writing, and music, and while a clerk at Axminster also received instruction from a Roman Catholic priest.
 Inheriting some money, he came to London and painted portraits and historical pictures.
 He failed, however, to get a place on the walls of the Royal Academy, but was more successful at the Society of Artists, to which he contributed "Burning of the Albion Mills", and at the British Institution, to which he contributed eight pictures in 1808.
 His best picture was "The Death of Chatterton", now in the possession of Sir James Winter Lake, bart., who also owns a portrait of Cranch, which was engraved by John Thomas Smith.
 He is said to have excelled in "poker-pictures", and to have been befriended by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
 Reynolds in his youth had received valuable assistance from a Mr. and Mrs. Cranch of Plympton, Devonshire, who were doubtless relatives of John Cranch.
 He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1797 and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1818.
 After residing many years at Bath, Cranch died there in his seventieth year in February 1821.
 He published two works—"On the Economy of Testaments" (1794), and "Inducements to promote the Fine Arts of Great Britain by exciting Native Genius to independent Effort and original Design" (1811).
 There is a picture by him in the South Kensington Museum.
London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City is a book of photography featuring a collage of creativity in London.
 It was released in October 2015.
 It features numerous portraits of artists, DJs, and performers, such as Ron Arad, Matthew Bourne, André Balazs, Alan Rusbridger, Tim Marlow, Mark Hix, and Marc Quinn.
Stephen Pearce (16 November 1819 – 31 January 1904) was a portrait and equestrian painter.
 Forty-four portraits which he painted are in the National Portrait Gallery in London, which also contains two self-portraits.
Paul Emsley (born 25 August 1947) is a British artist who worked in South Africa until 1996 and is now resident in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England.
 He is a former lecturer at the Stellenbosch University and the 2007 winner of the BP Portrait Award for portrait painting.
 His work can be found in most public collections in South Africa, The National Portrait Gallery London and The British Museum.
 He is known for his large detailed images of people, animals and flowers.
 There was a major retrospective of his work in 2012 at the Sasol Art Gallery in Stellenbosch.
 He is represented in the UK by the Redfern Gallery and in South Africa by Brundyn & Gonsalves.
 Emsley’s portrait of The Duchess of Cambridge is on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
 Other notable portraits include Nelson Mandela, Sir V. S. Naipaul, Michael Simpson and William Kentridge.
William Bell, born about 1734/5, was an English portrait painter originally from Newcastle upon Tyne.
 In around 1768 he moved to London, to be a student in the Royal Academy of Arts.
 While there, in the year of 1771, he received a gold medal for his painting of Venus entreating Vulcan to forge arms for her son Æneas.
 William Bell's best known works were the portraits painted for the family of Delaval, of Seaton Delaval Hall.
 These paintings earned Bell the patronage of Lord Delaval, and in 1775 he exhibited two views of Delaval Hall.
 A portrait he painted of Robert Harrison, 1715-1802, is displayed in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
 William Bell died on 8 June 1794 and was buried 10 June, St Andrew's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne; his death was reported in the Newcastle Courant (14 June 1794) thus: "DIED, Sunday morning, Mr William Bell, an eminent Portrait Painter, whose memory will be esteemed at long as his animated productions remain, many of which bear testimony to his abilities in this part of the kingdom".
Peter Wilkins (born July 26, 1968) is a British multimedia artist living in Newfoundland, Canada.
 He is best known for his kinetic portraits, in particular, 12 Kinetic Portraits of Canadian Writers.
 These works have been exhibited at The Rooms Provincial Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and the entire suite was purchased by the Portrait Gallery of Canada in 2008.
 Wilkins' most recent work investigated the modernist design of Gander International Airport.
 These artworks, digital print and video, were exhibited at The Rooms Provincial Gallery as part of Newtopia from Sept 2008 - January 2009.
 In the summer of 2009 his portraits of prominent Newfoundlanders were exhibited at Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Prince Edward Island as part of the exhibition "10 & 60".
 He was the first artist-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Miriam Escofet (born 1967) Miriam Escofet is a Spanish portrait painter and skilled in Art, Fine Art, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Perspective Drawing, Teaching, Photography, Ceramic, Book design, and Contemporary Art.
 Escofet lives and is currently working in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
 Miriam Escofet was born in 1967 in Barcelona, she moved to the United Kingdom in 1979.
 Escofet grew up in a home of artists and art.
 She studied 3D Design at the Brighton School of Art and graduated in 1991.
 Her painting career began soon after graduating and she has been working as an artist ever since Escofet is fluent in three languages; Spanish, Catalan, and English.
 She is the daughter of Jose Escofet.
 She currently spends her time teaching master art and painting portraits, classes.
 Escofet works at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design and Heatherleys school of Fine art.
 Escofet studied at Epsom School of Art, 3d Design at the Brighton School of Art and graduated in 1991.
 Escofet holds a bachelor degree in 3D design.
 Her painting career began soon after graduating and she has been working as an artist ever since.
 Her work is dedicated to her influences on the architecture of the classical, Gothic and renaissance period.
 Her theme of each artwork is commonly related to aesthetics, imagination, and symbolism.She has become very known for her style of painting.
 She has exhibited widely in Europe.
 Her work has been selected for the BP Portrait Award exhibitions in 2009, 2010 and 2012 and for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition.
Lajos Markos (1917–1993) was a Hungarian American artist trained at the Royal Academy of Budapest.
 He came to the United States following World War II and worked as a portraitist in New York City, painting such celebrities as John Wayne and Robert Kennedy,President Ronald Reagan, The Royal Family of King Hassan II (only one known portrait of the king painted in July 1978,during a reception to honor the present, for his birthday )and Pablo Casals.
 In his lifetime, Lajos Markos completed over 2,000 portraits.
 In the 1960s, he moved to Houston, Texas, where he expanded his interest to art of the American west.
 Examples of his work are in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Texas State Capitol in Austin, TX, and the Zigler museum,other prominent museums and major private collections also own his work.JP Morgan has acquired number of his works housed today in the main CEO office building.His portraits are scarce.
 Jennings, LA.His fascination with the history of the settling of the western states and especially the history of Texas finally led him to Houston in 1971.
 He painted portraits of the 12 "Texas Immortals," which hang in the Texas Commerce Bank in Houston, the "Siege of the Alamo," which hangs in the Texas State Capital in Austin, and countless western paintings depicting the history of the cowboy era, which hang in private and corporate collections here and abroad.
 Paintings of Sam Houston, Robert E. Lee, and General George Patton are in private collections.
Sir William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art.
 Emerging during the early 1890s, Rothenstein continued to make art right up until his death in the mid-1940s.
 Though he covered many subjects – ranging from landscapes in France to representations of Jewish synagogues in London – he is perhaps best known for his work as a war artist in both world wars, his portraits, and his popular memoirs, written in the 1930s.
 More than two hundred of Rothenstein's portraits of famous people can be found in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
 The Tate Gallery also holds a large collection of his paintings, prints and drawings.
 Rothenstein served as Principal at the Royal College of Art from 1920 to 1935.
 He was knighted in 1931 for his services to art.
 In March 2015 'From Bradford to Benares: the Art of Sir William Rothenstein', the first major exhibition of Rothenstein's work for over forty years, opened at Bradford's Cartwright Hall Gallery, touring to the Ben Uri in London later that year.
André Tomes Balazs (born January 31, 1957) is the President and CEO of André Balazs Properties that includes a portfolio of hotels across the United States and residences in New York, especially in New York City.

Question: London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City contains a portrait of a CEO born January 31, 1957 known as who?
Answer: André Balazs