Anthony green painter biography examples

British painter (1939–2023)

Anthony GreenRA (30 September 1939 – 14 February 2023) was an English realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life.^[1] His works sometimes used compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses.

As well as producing oil paintings, he also produced a number of works designed from the start as limited edition prints, which were typically giclée works.

Early years

Anthony Green was born on 30 September 1939 in Luton, Bedfordshire, and educated at Highgate School, London (where he was taught by Kyffin Williams) and the Slade School of Art (from 1956).

Green was interviewed for his place at the Slade by William Coldstream. It was there where he first met lifelong friend and fellow RA Ben Levene, and in 1957 where he met his future wife Mary Cozens-Walker.

In 1960, he moved to Paris and Châteauroux on