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Nicholas St.John Rosse was born in 1945 in Hampstead, London, and was educated
at University College School. From an early age he became interested in painting,
encouraged and enthused by watching the landscape painter Donald Towner at
work in the open air and visiting his studio. After leaving school Nicholas
went to see Pietro Annigoni in Italy with a portfolio of drawings and three
very beneficial years in Florence followed as a student with the master and
attending the Scuola Del Nudo of the Florence Academy:
“I drew, I painted, I learned at first hand about the preparation
and use of traditional materials. Above all I watched Annigoni at work – portraits,
landscapes, large-scale religious compositions, sculpture and lithographs.
He combined a zest for life with a totally uncompromising dedication to his
art - an attitude that has had a lasting influence on his students even though
we have all developed different approaches to painting.”
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