He read Fine Art at the University of Leeds awarded a place by Professor Sir Lawrence Gowing, graduating in 1979.
[2] The novelist Anthony Powell CH wrote the accompanying catalogue descriptions of the thirty-one paintings.
[11][12][13][14][15][16] On 28 September 1995 The British Red Cross unveiled Henry Mee's portrait of Princess Diana at Christie's London.
[17][18][19] September 2001 Fine Art Society London, retrospective exhibition Henry Mee Portraits of Eminent Britons.
His sitters were: Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP; Governor of the Bank of England Lord (Mervyn) King; Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne MP; First Secretary of State Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Lord (William) Hague of Richmond; Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Lord (Kenneth) Clarke of Nottingham CH QC PC; Lord (Alistair) Darling of Roulanish, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Alastair Campbell, Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy; General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO ADC DL, Chief of the General Staff; David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; Lord (Chris) Patten CH PC Governor Hong Kong 1992-7, Chancellor Oxford University, Chairman BBC Trust; Sir Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, President of the Board of Trade; The Baroness (Eliza) Manningham-Buller DCB, Director General of MI5; The Baroness (PD) James of Holland Park CBE FRSA FRSL, Author; Sir George Martin CBE, Beatles Producer, Parlophone; The Lord (Melvyn) Bragg of Wigton, Chancellor University of Leeds, Editor of the South Bank Show; Gerald Scarfe CBE RDI; and Lord in Appeal in Ordinary Lord (Leonard) Hoffmann of Chedworth PC BCL MA.