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Philip Naviasky was born in Leeds in 1894, the son of Polish immigrants. He won a junior scholarship to the Leeds School of art in 1907 and, at the age of 18, became the youngest ever student to be accepted into the Royal Academy Schools. There he won a Royal Exhibition Award from the Board of Education to spend three years studying at the Royal College of Art. He went on to teach at the Leeds College of Art. Naviasky lived in Leeds nearly all his life but he travelled widely: in Ireland, the south of France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Balearic Isles, Morocco, the southern United States and Mexico. He is best known for his oil portraits of women and children, and for his atmospheric landscape paintings and sketches of the Yorkshire Moors but he also executed a number of prestigious portraits including those of politicians, notably Ramsay Macdonald, Britain’s first Labour Prime Minister and Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer. He died in 1983.

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