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Alexander Thomas Talbot Rice (born 4 August 1969 in London) is a British society portrait artist.
Biography
Rice is the son of David and Sylvia Talbot Rice and was educated at Stowe School, Gloucestershire which he entered on a fine art scholarship. After Durham University, he gained a scholarship to the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence where he studied classic portraiture for three years. He studied two further years at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, followed by two years at the Repin Academy of Arts in St Petersburg. He is one of the few Western Europeans to have studied at this academy.
Rice has been made the first non Russian Hon Professor of the Repin Academy and will shortly be helping to organise an international exhibition of their drawings in London.
He is a great-nephew of British art historian David Talbot Rice. Rice lived in Dinefwr Castle in west Wales, between 2003 and 2008, during which time he had his studio there.
In 2005 he painted the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, posing her during three sittings in the Gold State Coach in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace. He has also painted portraits of Margaret Thatcher, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Pope Benedict XVI. In 2007 he exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, USA.
Rice is currently based in Sussex in the United Kingdom.