Anthony Palliser was born in 1949 in Brussels of an English father and a Belgian mother.
He graduated from New College Oxford.
In 1967 he Attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome. Studied under Guttuzo and Guccione.
1968 - 71 New College, Oxford.
M.A. French Literature and History, Studied History of Art under Francis Haskell.
Attended the Ruskin School of Art.
In 1970 he settled in Paris where he still lives and works.
From 1972 - 74 he studied engraving there under S.W. Hayter and later Aldo Crommelynck.
From 1995 to 1997 he taught as visiting professor at the New York School of Visual Arts in Savannah, Georgia. He remains a frequent visitor to Savannah and Charleston S.C.

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"Many of Palliser's still lives are like no other still lives I can recall...I have the impression that a portrait by him will seldom be merely a portrait - It will be a painting that contains a portrait."
Graham Greene

"There is a feeling for sacred objects in Anthony Palliser's paintings which shows in his portraits and figure studies as well as in the still lives."
Stephen Spender

"Palliser's paintings are given to a sensual, erotic romanticism unlike much of our contemporary painting, British or otherwise. It is not so much that he has kept himself from the various streams and contemporary currents of painting in the past two decades but that he has kept with a kind of aesthetic faith whose tenets suppose a belief in the materiality of mysteries."
Frederic Tuten

"The ambition of painting 'Thought' is probably as vain an enterprise as the aspiration to paint 'Time', but when Anthony Palliser decided to throw open the shutters of his atelier and leave it in the safekeeping of his beautifully-realised human and material objects, he found an obliging accomplice in the wrinkles of Nature and the necessary, criss-crossing place of humans...within those elusive folds of earth and sky."
Christopher Hitchens

Anthony Palliser's most recent one-man shows were in November 2000 in London at Thomas Gibson Fine Art and in Paris in March 2001 at Gallerie Tatiana Tournemine.

To date he has had 22 one-man exhibitions and countless group shows all over Europe and in the U.S.A.

One of the most recent was his highly acclaimed 1996 show "Performers" at Lincoln Center in New York City in which he showed his enthusiasm for the theatre and cinema.
His well-known portrait of Graham Greene hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London and that of Paddy Ashdown in the House of Commons.

1971 Atelier 23 - Paris
1972 Nevill Pictures - London
1972 Atelier 23 - Paris
1974 Cercle d'Art - Brussels
1976 Rue Madame - Paris
1979 Galerie Brigitte Schéhadé - Paris
1980 Clarendon Gallery - London
1981 Galeria Fontanella Borghese - Rome
1983 David Ker Fine Art - London
1985 Quinton Green Fine Art - London
1988 Hallam Gallery - London
1989 Maurice Keitelman - Brussels
1995 Espace 14/16 rue de Verneuil - Paris
1995 La Galerie- Paris
1996 Lincoln Center - New York City
1996 SVA - Savannah, GA
1997 Thomas Gibson Fine Art - London
1997 Le Monde de l'Art - Paris
1998 Kim Iocovozzi Fine Art - Savannah, GA
1998 Telfair Museum - Savannah, GA
2000 Thomas Gibson Fine Art - London
2001 Tatiana Tournemine - Paris

1977 L'Angle Aigu - Brussels
1981 Exposition Internationale de la ville de Caen
1993 Royal Hibernian Academy - Dublin
1995 Galerie d'Art Contemporain- Montfort l'Amaury, France
1998 The Red Piano Gallery - Hilton Head, SC
2000 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries - London

He has executed numerous portraits of collectors and personalities.
They include Kevin Spacey, Ambassador Pamela Harriman, Natalia Duchess of Westminster, Ines de la Fressange.

Isabelle Adjani, Francis Bacon,John Hurt, Thomas Gibson, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Lumley, Pierre-Noel Matisse, Marc Blondeau, Eric de Rothschild, Christopher Hitchens.

National Portrait Gallery, London
House of Commons Collection, London

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