Anthony Palliser Male Portrait Study

An original 1973 pen & ink drawing, Anthony Palliser, Male Portrait Study.

A vital sketch by the acclaimed portrait painter Anthony Palliser (b.1949).

Anthony Palliser was born in 1949 to an English father and a Belgian mother. He studied at Downside school and graduated from New College Oxford. In 1967 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1970 he settled in Paris where he still lives and works. From 1995 to 1997 he taught as visiting professor at the New York School of Visual Arts in Savannah, Georgia.

To date he has had twenty-eight one-man exhibitions and countless group shows all over Europe and the USA. His well-known portrait of Graham Greene hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London and that of Paddy Ashdown in the House of Commons. Other sitters of note include literary figures such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Martin Amis, and actors John Hurt, Kevin Spacey and Helena Bonham-Carter.