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Robert Neffson

Robert Neffson (Born 1949) is active/lives in New York, Massachusetts.  Robert Neffson is known for Photo-real city streets, figure and architecture painting.

Robert Neffson is an American painter known for his street scenes of various cities around the world, and for his early still lifes and figure paintings.

Neffson was born in New York City and grew up in Little Neck, New York. He was raised by a single father, after his mother, an amateur artist, died when he was seven. He began attending classes at the Art Students League of New York in 1961, under the instruction of artists such as Lennart Anderson and Sidney Dickinson As a student he copied Old Masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

His study of, among others, the painters Jan Vermeer, Thomas Eakins, Camille Corot, and Canaletto, developed his skills further. While attending the Boston University College of Fine Arts, from which he graduated cum laude in 1971, Neffson did work, which attracted the attention of his professors, including James Weeks and the abstract expressionist painter, Philip Guston.

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