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Anastasia Pollard is an American-born English painter.
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Anastasia Pollard is an American-born English painter.
Pollard was raised in Virginia and educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She then attended the Florence Academy of Art before apprenticing from 1993 to 1995. Pollard has lived in London since 2006.
Pollard won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition for 2009. [1]
Pollard is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, a founder of the London Atelier for Representational Art (LARA).
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