An assistant to artist David Hockney died after drinking acid at the painter’s home.
Dominic Elliott, 23, had taken cocaine, ecstasy and temazepam before he drank the liquid and was rushed to hospital, where he died, an inquest has heard.
Mr Elliott was taken ill at Hockney’s home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, in March. The artist was asleep at home at the time.
Hockney’s former long-term partner, John Fitzherbert, told the hearing in Hull that he drove Mr Elliott to Scarborough Hospital in the early hours of the morning.
He said that, during the day leading up to the incident, he and Mr Elliott had smoked cannabis and drunk alcohol and Mr Elliott had also snorted cocaine.
Hockney, who was not in court, said he had gone to bed at 9pm the night before and although he came down to the kitchen at midnight to make a cup of tea and met Mr Fitzherbert and his chief assistant, Jean Pierre De Lima, there was “nothing out of the ordinary”.
The painter said Mr Elliott and Mr Fitzherbert had been in a relationship for about four months. He described how a number of people lived in his house. He said he had a large double bedroom where he also did portraits.
He said Mr Fitzherbert, with whom he had a long relationship, had another large, self-contained room.