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Andrew Vicari

Andrew Vicari (1938 - 2016) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Italy.  Andrew Vicari is known for Painting.

Andrew Vicari was a Welsh painter working in France, who established a career painting portraits of prominent people.  Despite being largely unknown in his own country, as of 2004 Vicari was Britain's richest living painter and at one time Britain's 18th richest person.

Between 1950 and 1952 he studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London (UCL) under William Coldstream and occasionally Lucian Freud as teachers.  After only two years, in 1952, Vicari left the Slade without completing his diploma course and went to Florence.  He stayed there and in Rome for two years before returning 'penniless' to the UK.  

In 1974, Vicari was appointed as the official painter to the King and Government of Saudi Arabia.  In the following decades, he painted many portraits of the Saudi royal family as well as scenes of Riyadh and Bedouin life.   It is largely due to this patronage that Vicari ow   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1523 characters.]  Artist bio

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