Green is seeking redress from Everton, with his claim stating “market value” for a licence to use such an image would be in the region of £10,000 per year increasing to £15,000 for the years 2024 and 2025, and that the club’s conduct warranted the award of “additional damages”.
The claim sets out Green’s credentials, calling him “a renowned and celebrated artist who has created artwork of Liverpool’s landscape and the Merseyside area for more than 50 years”.
It stated that one of his paintings entitled The Last Game at the Kop sold at auction for £22,500 in November 2013.
It lists a number of “well-known persons” who either have been shown, provided with, or purchased his artwork, including former Liverpool footballers Bruce Grobbelaar, Ian Callaghan, Brian Hall, Roy Evans and Mark Wright.
Also cited is the late Queen Mother, with Green said to have painted her horses at Aintree racecourse and gone to Kensington Palace each year to present her with a print of each picture.
Baroness Thatcher, the former Prime Minister, is said to have been given a picture called Tall Ships in Liverpool during a visit to a gallery owned by Green in the 1980s.
That same decade, Pope John Paul II is understood to have been presented with a framed print of Green’s painting of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral during a visit to Rome by the Liverpool Catholic Cathedral Choir.
Others listed include the former King and Queen of Spain, Britain’s longest-serving deputy Prime Minister, Lord Prescott, Cilla Black and Sir Nat Lofthouse.
In 2013, Green gave an interview to the Liverpool Echo in which he listed his top-10 paintings, among which was one of Anfield Methodist Church close to Liverpool Football Club’s home stadium.
He said: “I used to go to the football regularly at both Anfield and Goodison. I was mad about football.”
Everton and Green both declined to comment further on his legal claim.
