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Painting of La Marianne by Andrew Vicari (1980)


Andrew Vicari (born 20 April 1938) is a Welsh painter working in France who has established a career painting portraits of the rich and famous. Despite being largely unknown in his own country, as of 2004 Vicari was Britain's richest living painter.

Vicari was born in Port Talbot, Wales, but was evacuated to Aberdare during the World War II. He later attended Neath Grammar School for Boys. Between 1951-53 he studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art with Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud as teachers. On graduation, Vicari started working in London as a portrait painter. Eschewing modern trends, Vicari has remained a figurative artist working in oil. His work is appreciated worldwide, especially in the Middle East where three museums are solely dedicated to his work.

In 1974 Vicari was appointed as the official painter to the King and Government of Saudi Arabia. In the following decades he painted many portraits of the Saudi royal family as well as scenes of Riyadh and Bedouin life. It is largely due to this patronage that Vicari owes his financial success. In 2001 he sold a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled for £17 million.

Vicari currently lives and works at his studio outside Nice, France, although he also owns apartments in Riyadh and Monte Carlo.

His fortune was valued at £92 million in 2006 by the Sunday Times Rich List [1].

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Cymru am byth   (Welsh)
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"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau"
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The Slade School of Fine Art is the art school of University College London, UK.

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Francis Bacon

28 September 1909(1909--)
Dublin, Ireland
28 March 1992 (aged 84)
Madrid, Spain

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud. Composite image by procsilas
8 November 1922 (1922--) (age 86)
Berlin, Germany

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Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear boundaries. The term "Middle East" was popularized around 1900 in Britain, and has been criticized for its loose definition.
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Gulf War or Persian Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991)[4][5] was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force from 35 nations[6]
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The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 most wealthy people or families in the United Kingdom, updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989.
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