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Robbie Wraith left school at 16, and went to study in Florence at the invitation of Pietro Annigoni.
He has work in the private collection of HM The Queen as well as more than 40 pictures in the private collection of HRH The Prince of Wales, and also in the Royal Collection Windsor, The Vatican, Chatsworth, The National Trust, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Eton College, Blarney Castle, The MCC, Shell International, Fondazione Fremantle and many others.
A long list of distinguished portrait sitters has included HM The Queen, The 11th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales, The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and Nelson Mandela, drawn while accompanying HRH The Prince of Wales as travelling artist on his official visits to South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho.
Other work for The Prince of Wales includes two series of pictures of the house and gardens at Highgrove and a series of HMY Britannia. Other commissions include the painting presented to Pope John Paul II to commemorate his visit to Canterbury, and frescoes in two churches in Italy.
Various awards and prizes include most recently the 2009 Discerning Eye Purchase Prize. In 1995 he was elected to The Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
He has had twenty six one-man exhibitions.
Selected mixed exhibitions:
- ‘Travels with The Prince’ - Hampton Court Palace
- ‘Princes as Patrons’ - Museum of Wales,
- The Royal Academy,
- The National Portrait Gallery,
- Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford
- Museum of Modern Art,
- Edinburgh Gallery,
- Royal Watercolour Society,
- New English Art Club,
- The Discerning Eye
- Henry Wyndham Fine Art,
- John Martin Fine Art,
- Albemarle Gallery,
- Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin,
- Belgrave Gallery,
- Berkeley Square Gallery,
- Quest Gallery, Bath,
- Alan Kluckow Fine Art
- Threadneedle Art Exhibition
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