Loryn Brazier is an American painter, notable for her portraits.

Biography

Brazier was raised in northern Virginia, moving to

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in the 1960s for studies at Richmond Polytechnic Institute. She next worked as an illustrator and art director, and for a time owned an advertising agency. In 1985, after a year traveling across Europe with her husband, she decided to refocus her career on painting, taking lessons with

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, commissioned by Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999, is owned by the

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. Another portrait, of Wilhelmina Holladay, is in the collection of the

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. Her portraits of Virginia first ladies

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and

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are owned by the state of Virginia. A portrait of

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is displayed in the Virginia State Senate. Other work is owned by Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Mary Washington, and the state of Maryland.

References

1941 births Living people 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American women painters Artists from Richmond, Virginia Painters from Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University alumni American portrait painters {{US-painter-1940s-stub