Royal portraitist Nicky Philipps opens exhibition at Fine Art Commissions' new Duke Street gallery
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Royal portraitist Nicky Philipps opens exhibition at Fine Art Commissions' new Duke Street gallery
Nicky Philipps’ latest commission of The Queen to go on display at Fine Art Commissions’ new gallery.



LONDON.- Nicky Philipps’ much-anticipated solo exhibition opens on Wednesday 5 June and will run until Friday 28 June 2013. The exhibition will be held at Fine Art Commissions’ new gallery on Duke Street, St. James’ and marks the artist’s first solo show since her highly successful exhibition at Arndean Gallery on Cork Street in 2007.

The gallery will be displaying selected portraits on loan as well as Philipps’ trademark Still Life and Flower paintings. The highlight of the show will be her latest important commission, which is set to be unveiled in the coming weeks. The portrait is made from life and will have never been exhibited before. More specific details will be available imminently – please let me know if you’d like to be kept updated.

Perhaps most renowned for her striking oil painting of Princes William and Harry (executed 2010), which now forms a part of the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection, Philipps’ work has been described as possessing, “the most particular sensitivity to the observed detail and […] quality of texture, surface and reflection” (William Packer). Her portrait of the Princes was highly acclaimed and described as an, “intimate composition” (The Daily Telegraph), which is both “beautiful and totally believable” (Hello!).

Philipps has had six extremely well received Still Life and Landscape exhibitions. The 1997 solo show at The Malcolm Innes Gallery was the most successful contemporary exhibition in the gallery's twenty-five year history. The later solo exhibition in 2007 of Still life and Landscapes at the Arndean Gallery opened to enormous acclaim with over 30 paintings selling in the first hour, and 65 pieces out of 70 selling in total. In 2005 Nicky was one of two portrait painters whose paintings were chosen to hang at the BP Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and the Garrick Milne Exhibition at Christie's.

Set up in 1996 by managing director Sara Stewart, Fine Art Commissions’ stable of artists have produced some of the most iconic portraits of many well-known personalities from the worlds of politics, film, media, art and also many members of the Royal Family; David Walliams, David Hockney, Rebekah Brooks, David Cameron, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles are amongst those depicted. The calibre of the artists’ oeuvres has led to the company achieving a global reputation of commissioning portraits of the highest quality, and has led Sara Stewart to become recognised as a leading authority in contemporary portraiture. Other artists in the company’s stable include; Nick Bashall, Fergus Greer, Marcus Hodge, Paul Benney and Raoul Martinez,










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