Lester Piggott on Royal Academy
- oil on canvas
- 23.5 x 39 in
- Valeriy Gridnev
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$9000. - 12000. Valeriy Gridnev divides his time between St. Petersburg and London. He has won many awards in Russia and in England. He is a member of the Pastel Society and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and is the only non-British member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He has completed numerous commissioned portraits notably those of Bobby and Phoebe Tudor of Houston Texas benefactors of Rice University; Louis Frosio leader of the Monte-Carlo Orchestra; and such members of British royalty as Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert 7th Earl of Carnarvon; Jean Margaret Wallop Countess of Carnarvon; George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert 8th Earl of Carnarvon; and the wife of the Hon. Harry Herbert Chica Herbert (nee Bevan) and her daughters Chloe and Francesca.