Anastasia Pollard is an American-born English painter.

Life and career

Pollard was raised in Virginia and educated at the

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum ...

. She then attended the

Florence Academy of Art The Florence Academy of Art is an American art school in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It was started by Daniel Graves, an American painter, in 1991. Teaching is in the traditional style of the old masters. The school is a branch of ...

before apprenticing from 1993 to 1995. Pollard has lived in London since 2006. Pollard won the

Ondaatje Prize The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that evokes the "spirit of a place", and is written by someo ...

for Portraiture at the

Royal Society of Portrait Painters The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is a charity based at Carlton House Terrace, SW1, London that promotes the practice and appreciation of portraiture art. Its Annual Exhibition of portraiture is held at Mall Galleries, and it runs a commi ...

Annual Exhibition for 2009. Pollard is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, a founder of the London Atelier for Representational Art (LARA).

Awards

* Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition (2009) * The Artist's House Gallery Award (2000) * Gross McCleaf Gallery Prize (2000) * Earl T. Donelson Figure Painting Award (2000) * Hobson Pittman Memorial Prize, Special Notice (2000) * The William Emlen Cresson Scholarship (1999) * Linda Lee Alter Award (1999) * Celia Beaux Memorial Prize (1999) * Melvin Paul and Pearl Miller Carpel Award * Lucille Sorgenti Scholarship (1999) * Silvia S. and Miron M. Walley Memorial Scholarship (1999) * Benjamin West Prize (1999)

References

English women painters Living people Artists from Virginia Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British women artists 21st-century English women 21st-century English painters {{UK-artist-stub