Alison Watt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alison Watt
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Dec 11, 1965(1965-12-11)
Age	59
Birthplace	Greenock
Country	Scotland
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Alison Watt Biography

Alison Watt is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on December 11, 1965 in Greenock, Scotland.

Watt’s 1986–87 Self-portrait was painted while still a student. She was ill at the time and she depicts herself with her hand across her forehead, as if checking her temperature or perhaps indicating she was feeling faint. Watt has rarely engaged in portraiture since her early career. The painting was presented to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to celebrate its re- opening in 2011.

Alison Watt was born in Greenock, Scotland. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1988. While still a student, she came to national attention by winning the 1987 John Player Portrait Award and as a result was commissioned to paint a portrait of the Queen Mother. Her first works to become well known were dryly painted figurative canvases, often female nudes, in light-filled interiors. An exhibition of her work entitled Fold in 1997 at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery was the first introducing fabric alongside these figures, simultaneously suggesting a debt to the 19th-century French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, as well as pointing to the possibilities of abstraction.

Alison Watt Net Worth

Alison Watt is one of the richest Painter from Scotland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alison Watt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA (born 1965) is a Scottish painter who first came to national attention while still at college when she won the 1987 Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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Who is Alison Watt Dating?

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From January 2006 to February 2008, Watt served as the seventh and youngest Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London. She worked within the gallery, and explored an enduring fascination with one particular painting in the collection, Zurbaran’s St. Francis in Meditation (1635–9). The work she created in this time was displayed in a solo exhibition called ‘Phantom’, in the Sunley Room, running from 12 March to 22 June 2008. The same year, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.

Facts & Trivia

Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Scotland. Alison Watt celebrates birthday on December 11 of every year.

Pears dates from the 1990s when Watt’s work focused on highly realistic nudes posed on drapery. The model used here is one she painted frequently at the time. Pears was offered for sale at a Sotheby’s London auction on 18 November 2015.

What medium does Alison Watt use?

Painting

Who influenced Alison Watt?

Alison Watt is a contemporary Scottish painter known for her realistic depictions of drapery and figures. Watt’s has cited the work of Jean- Auguste-Dominique Ingres as a particular source of inspiration for her practice.

Why was Sir Henry Raeburn called sir?

He spent some time in Italy but returned to Edinburgh in 1787 where he began painting portraits of the rich, famous and important people of his day. He was in constant demand and received many honours: in 1822 he was knighted when the King visited Edinburgh. Sir Henry Raeburn died a year later.

What paint does Alison Watt use?

Watt works on large-format canvases , which she paints alone, using scaffolding. Her colour of choice is white, which she blends with ochre, sienna, vermilion, grey, and black pigments to produce realistically modelled draperies of an almost sculptural nature.

Who painted Henry Raeburn?

Raeburn went on to paint some of the most influential figures in society, including Sir John Sinclair (c. 1794) and Sir Walter Scott (1823, both at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh). Raeburn painted over 700 portraits: In addition, he was also one of the best miniaturists in Scotland.