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John Bellany (1942- )
Painter, born into a fishing family at Port Seton, East Lothian. He entered Edinburgh College of Art, 1960-5. During his time there, in 1962, he won an Andrew Grant Scholarship, permitting travel to Paris; & for several years with Alexander Moffat he showed his pictures outside RSA, in opposition to the Establishment, worked in the Northern European-Realist tradition. Studied at Royal College of Art, 1965-8, where he continued to develop his personal symbolism, fed by travels to the Low Countries & Germany & the works & sights he saw there. A large number of watercolour portraits was completed in the 1980s, following a series of serious illnesses. By then Bellany was recognised as an artist of international stature. Had many solo shows, including The Dromidaris Gallery, Netherlands, 1965; a series at Drian Gallery in 1970s; Compass Gallery, Glasgow, 1987 & 1990; & abroad. His works are in principal public galleries in Britain, including Tate Gallery & Scottish Gallery of Modern Art. Lived in London & was made RA in 1991.
The above extract has been taken from David Buckman’s Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945, Art Dictionaries Ltd, 1998, p. 132.
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