John Wonnacott - The Balcony, Lake Como, Early Morning
Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm
About the Artist
John Wonnacott has lived and painted on the Thames estuary in Southend for the past sixty years. He was born in London in 1940 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1958-63. John taught drawing at Reading University and the Norwich school of art until 1985. He was represented by Marlborough Fine Art from 1980-88 and by Agnews from 1988-2011. John’s paintings are included in many public as well as private collections: notably the Metropolitan Museum New York, Tate Britain, Imperial war Museum, National Maritime Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Cambridge University and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. In 2000 he was awarded CBE.
In 2022 Sir Charles Saumarez Smith’s book ‘John Wonnacott A Biographical Study’ was published by Lund Humphries.