John Wonnacott CBE Hon RP

John Wonnacott was born in London in 1940 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1958-63. John taught drawing at Reading University and the Norwich school of art until 1985. He was represented by Marlborough Fine Art from 1980-88 and by Agnews from 1988-2011. John’s paintings are included in many public as well as private collections: notably the Metropolitan Museum New York, Tate Britain, Imperial war Museum, National Maritime Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Cambridge University and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown.

Image: John Wonnacott CBE Hon RP, Inside and out, portrait head watching two spaces

John Wonnacott: A Biographical Study

RP Member John Wonnacott has recently been the subject of a biographical book written by Charles Saumarez Smith. The book, called John Wonnacott: A Biographical Study is described, "In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which connected him with artists such as Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews and the School of London more broadly, Saumarez Smith roots Wonnacott's approach in his commitment to the discipline of drawing, his acute skills in observational analysis and the mechanics of graphic invention that makes his visual response to the world so memorable."

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