About ATR
Who is Alexander Talbot Rice?
Alexander Talbot Rice has an international reputation as one of the top portrait painters of his generation.
Alexander Talbot Rice was educated at Stowe School, which he entered on a fine art scholarship. After Durham University, he gained a scholarship to the Charles Cecil School of Art in Florence where he studied classic portraiture for three years.
He studied two further years at the Academy of Florence, followed by two years at the Repin Academy in St Petersburg. He is one of the few Western Europeans to have studied at this academy, which has an almost mythical status amongst artists. Alexander has just been made the first non Russian Hon Professor of the Repin Academy and will shortly be helping to organise an international exhibition of their drawings in London.
Learning classic methods from the veteran Russian painter Michael Michaelovich Pimanov, Alexander developed his own style – a unique fusion between the Florence and Russian techniques. His talent and craft soon became noticed and he began to receive commisions from all over Europe and the Americas.
In addition to his own work, Alexander is passionate about encouraging young artists to fulfill their potential. His Being There Foundation Scholarships are aimed at providing promising artists with the essential training that will help them express themselves fully. This has been so sucessful it is now being extended to both fine art and sport in war torn Afghanistan. The universal language of art and sport are effective means of engaging with Afghan children in a meaningful way, enabling them to overcome cultural and ethnic divisions, have a positive means of self expression and enable them to appreciate the beauty of Western culture.
