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Anthony Palliser (born 1949) is a British painter. [1]
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Anthony Palliser (born 1949) is a British painter. [1]
Anthony Palliser was born in 1949. He is the grandson of Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and the son of British diplomat Michael Palliser. Palliser has lived in Paris since 1970. [2] He studied in England at Downside School and graduated from New College, Oxford. In 1967 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. [3]
He taught at the New York School of Visual Arts in Savannah, Georgia, US, from 1995 to 1997. [2]
Palliser has had many solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in the United States. [2] His portrait of Graham Greene hangs in the National Portrait Gallery (London) [4] and that of Paddy Ashdown in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. [3] A portrait of the historian Sir Michael Howard was commissioned for the Michael Howard Reading Room at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives in King's College London in 2002. [5] Other portrait subjects include fashion designer Kenzo Takada, celebrated publicist Bobby Zarem, the poet Derek Mahon, director James Ivory and actresses Kristin Scott Thomas and Charlotte Rampling.
A book of Palliser's works was published in France in 2005, at the same time as an exhibition of "Large Heads" at the Ricard Foundation, Paris. [2]
A retrospective exhibition was held in 2009 at the Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, Georgia. [6]
Palliser is married to Diane Lawyer.
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