John Bellany CBE RA HRSA British, 1942-2013
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My Grandmother, 1999
Untitled Landscape
Having trained at the Edinburgh College of Art (1960-5) and the Royal College of Art, London (1965-8), John Bellany taught at Croydon College of Art, Brighton College of Art, Winchester College of Art (1969-73), the Royal College of Art, and Goldsmiths College (1978-84).
John Bellany`s work has been the subject of numerous awards and major international exhibitions in Boston, Dublin, New York and Warsaw. Bellany was honoured with the first one-man show held at the National Portrait Gallery in London (1986) and elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1991.
In Scotland, his work can be seen at the municipal galleries in Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, Glasgow and Kirkcaldy, together with Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh), Hunterian Gallery, Glasgow) and was elected an honorary Member of the Ryal Scottish Academy in 1986.
Bellany was awarded a CBE (1994) and honorary degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh (1996) and Heriot-Watt (1998).
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