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Adam Birtwistle (born 1959) is a British artist whose idiosyncratic portraits of composers and musicians are represented in the National Portrait Gallery.
Described as 'one of our most distinguished portrait painters in what is, presently, a Golden Age of Portraiture in Britain', Adam Birtwistle is known for his deeply revealing portraits.
Artist of 2 portraits. Adam Birtwistle is the son of the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle. After attending schools in Britain and the US, he studied sculpture for four years at Chelsea School of Art and followed this with two years at the Arch Bronze Foundry, working with Ben Kneale.
Jan 4, 2015 · Adam Birtwistle (b. 1959) Adam Birtwistle is a leading, internationally acclaimed, artist. He has lived in France for the past 25 years but exhibited regularly in London. His challenging portraits combine a wry humour with an unsettling ‘vale of violence’ that is readily exposed in most of us when our thin veneer of civilised ...
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View Cow Chop (Sir Harrison Birtwistle) by Adam Birtwistle, sold at New Now on London Auction 9 December 2021. Learn more about the piece and artist, and its final selling price.
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