Fanny Rush

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Fanny Rush is a London-based portrait painter, best known for her portrait of US Ambassador Robert Tuttle for the American Embassy, London 2015.

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Biography

Based in Chelsea, London, Fanny Rush is a portrait painter, the daughter of two artists, Peter Rush and Caroline Lucas and also sister of the sculptor Joe Rush.[ citation needed ] She is also the granddaughter of the author Mary Norton [ citation needed ] best known for the Children's classics Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Borrowers. Norton won the 1952 Carnegie Medal and for the 70th anniversary of the medal in 2007, it was named one of the top ten winning works. She was also the winner of The Lewis Caroll Award (1960).

Portraits

Rush has painted portraits of:

Publications

Published works include Painting the light by Fanny Rush, The Artist Magazine February 2015 [7] and The Patience of Ordinary Things, published by Phaidon Press. [8]

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  4. "Shame about the ear-rings, mate". The Independent . No. 5817. 9 June 2005. p. 14.
  5. "Sheepish Buerk in no rush to see portrait". Evening Standard . 17 November 2004. p. 12.
  6. "David Cull". The Daily Telegraph . No. 47820. 2 March 2009. p. 29.
  7. ISSN   0004-3877 Vol 130 No 2 Issue 1022
  8. The Patience of Ordinary Things. Cygnet Press. ISBN   978 0 907435 20 4

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