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Tom Phillips

(1937-2022), Artist, writer and composer; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery

Sitter in 6 portraits
Artist of 22 portraits
Tom Phillips was born in London in 1937 and studied at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the Camberwell School of Art (1961-3). His work was included in Young Contemporaries exhibition in London in 1964. His solo exhibitions include Tom Phillips, The Portrait Works, NPG, 1989-90 and Tom Phillips, Works and Texts, Royal Academy, London 1992. He became a Royal Academician in 1989. As well as being a painter, Phillips was a writer and composer. His publications included A Humument (1980) and his translation and illustrations of Dante's Inferno (1982). His opera Irma was first performed in 1973. His work is held in many national and international collections, including those of the British Museum, Tate, MoMA New York and the National Gallery of Australia.

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Samuel Beckett, by Tom Phillips - NPG 6467

Samuel Beckett

by Tom Phillips
coloured lithograph, 1984
NPG 6467

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5921

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
oil on canvas, 1984-1986
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5921

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(6)

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
oil on board, 1984
NPG 5944(6)

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(5)

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
pencil, 1985
NPG 5944(5)

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(7)

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
oil on board, 1985
NPG 5944(7)

Study of 'The Flaying of Marsyas' by Titian, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(8)

Study of 'The Flaying of Marsyas' by Titian

by Tom Phillips
oil on canvas, 1985-1986
NPG 5944(8)

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(1)

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
conté, 1986
NPG 5944(1)

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(2)

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
conté, 1986
NPG 5944(2)

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(3)

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
conté, 1986
NPG 5944(3)

Iris Murdoch, by Tom Phillips - NPG 5944(4)

Iris Murdoch

by Tom Phillips
conté, 1986
NPG 5944(4)

Tom Phillips ('Humument Self-Portrait at Fifty'), by Tom Phillips - NPG 6098

Tom Phillips ('Humument Self-Portrait at Fifty')

by Tom Phillips
pen and ink and gouache over printed page, 1987
NPG 6098

Sir Peter Hall, by Tom Phillips - NPG 6152

Sir Peter Hall

by Tom Phillips
oil on panel, polyptych, 1991
NPG 6152

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, by Tom Phillips - NPG 6526

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

by Tom Phillips
computer-processed drawings and video, 1999-2000
NPG 6526

Sir Geoffrey Boycott, by Tom Phillips - NPG D8229

Sir Geoffrey Boycott

by Tom Phillips
etching, 1986
NPG D8229

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