Alexander Talbot Rice
Alexander Thomas Talbot-Rice is a British society portrait artist.Personal
Talbot-Rice is the son of David Arthur and Sylvia Dorothea Talbot-Rice and grand-nephew of art historian David Talbot Rice. He was educated at Stowe School. After Durham University, he began training as a painter, attending The Florence Academy of Art and later the Repin Academy of Arts in St Petersburg. On his initial arrival in Florence he had been homeless for a short time and slept in an Anglican church. He is dyslexic.Career
In 2005 he painted the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee, depicted HM the Coronation Coach at the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace. He has also painted portraits of Margaret Thatcher, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Pope Benedict XVI. In 2007 he exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, USA.
In 2012 he was an official war artist with the British Army during the war in Afghanistan.
