Feliks Topolski
(1907-1989), ArtistSitter in 15 portraits
Artist of 12 portraits
Artist and stage designer. Born in Poland, Topolski studied at the Warsaw Academy of Art (1927-32) before moving to London in 1935. His graphic style made his work well suited to use as illustrations, and during the Second World War his reputation in Britain as a gifted draughtsman saw him appointed as an official war artist. Topolski painted a mural for the Festival of Britain in 1951. His paintings include The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and twenty portraits of literary figures (1961-2). In 1975 he began his vast panorama Memoir of the Century, a mural under the arches of Hungerford Bridge, London, where he had his postwar studio.
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
by Feliks Topolski
ink and wash, 1950-1955
NPG 6329
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown
by Feliks Topolski
charcoal and crayon, 1963
NPG 6327
Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley
by Feliks Topolski
photographic print of a lithograph, late 1960s
NPG D42722
by Feliks Topolski
silkscreen print, 1988 or before
NPG D7219
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