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Jacob Collins

Jacob Collins (Born 1964/65) is active/lives in New York.  Jacob Collins is known for Classical realist portrait, figure and still life painting.

Born and raised in New York City, Jacob Collins is a champion of Classical Realism, a return to the 19th-century Academic technique that is counter to abstraction.  Among his portrait commission subjects are U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, J. Paul Getty Jr., and George H.W. Bush.

As a child, he showed the tendencies on which he has based his art career.  He began sketching Old Master pictures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where his grandmother used to take him.  She was Alma Binion Schapiro, who had trained as an artist in Paris, and Collins' great uncle was Meyer Schapiro, a renowned art historian.

He enrolled New York Studio School and Columbia University, and in 1987 to learn the Old Masters Techniques, he attended the New York Academy of Art.  He went on to study at the Ecole Albert Defois in France.

In 1990, he had his first solo show, which was held at the Union League in New York City, and from   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2398 characters.]  Artist bio

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