Background
George Weissbort was born in Brussels, Belgium but moved with his family to London as a child.
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George Weissbort
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Weissbort attended the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in the 1940s where he was taught by Ruskin Spear and Rodrigo Moynihan. While there, he studied life drawing under Bernard Meninsky.
Career
He lived and painted in Wye Valley, England. The critic Brian Sewell, considering him an important exponent of an earlier style at a time not widely receptive to it, described him as having "painted the right pictures at the wrong time". Growing up in London, Weissbort’s early associations and influences included the “experimental” artist and author Arthur Segal, whose conversion from abstract impressionism to realism initiated Weissbort’s lifelong interest in optical realism.
His artistic œuvre includes life drawings, landscapes, still lifes, commissioned portraits and self-portraiture.
Weissbort’s art has been exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Academy of Portrait Painters.
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Belgian