Английская Википедия:Alastair Adams

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Alastair Adams (born 1969 in Kingston Upon Thames) is an English artist best known for portraiture. He lives and works in Rutland.[1]

Life and work

Alastair studied painting at Hugh Baird College, Bootle and also at De Montfort University graduating in 1992. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters[2] in 2002, became Treasurer in 2005 and President in 2008. Between 2002 and 2017 he held a research based post, lecturing in Illustration at Loughborough University.[3]

Alastair's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including a portrait of ex Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair for the National Portrait Gallery,[4] London and Princeton University Art Museum.[5] He has donated 3 works of art to the People's Portrait Collection housed at Girton College, Cambridge.[6] In 2020 Alastair joined a number of artists who pledged via social media to paint portraits of nominated NHS key workers for the Portraits for NHS Heroes[7] art project during the Covid pandemic. He is a Trustee of the Federation of British Artists.[8]

Notable portraits

Since 2015, Alastair has been commissioned to paint a number of portraits for Yale University, New Haven, USA including two portraits of Chief Investment Officer David Swensen,[9][10] and posthumous works of Carolyn Slayman[11] and Dorothy Horstmann.[12]

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