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Andrew Tift

(1968-), Painter

Artist of 6 portraits
Tift studied at Stafford College of Art and the University of Central England. He has exhibited many times in the BP Portrait Award, winning the Travel Award in 1994 (which he used to visit Japan), third prize in 1999 (for his portrait of Tony Benn for the House of Commons) and first prize in 2006 (for his triptych portrait of Kitty Garman, Freud's first wife). Tift has won many other awards including The Japan Festival Award, The European Painting Award at the Frissiras Museum, Athens and the Emerson Group Award at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. In 1998 he was commissioned by the Gallery to paint a double portrait of Neil and Glenys Kinnock, which was unveiled in 2002.

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Neil Kinnock; Glenys Kinnock

by Andrew Tift
acrylic on canvas, 2001
NPG 6583

Eric Sykes

by Andrew Tift
charcoal, graphite, carbon and ink, 2011
NPG 6954

Ken Livingstone

by Andrew Tift
acrylic on canvas, 2014
NPG 6983

Ken Livingstone

by Andrew Tift
pen and ink, 6 January 2013
NPG D43015

Ken Livingstone

by Andrew Tift
pen and ink, 2013
NPG D43016

Ken Livingstone

by Andrew Tift
pen and ink, 2013
NPG D43017

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