Philip naviasky biography
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Philip naviasky biography
Ben Uri Research Unit
Born:1894 Leeds, England
Died:1983 Leeds, England
Other name/s: Philipp Naviasby
Biography
Painter Philip Naviasky was born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in Leeds, England on 14 January 1894.
In 1907 he was awarded a scholarship to study at Leeds School of Art, alongside Russian-born artist Jacob Kramer. Attaining the Senior Art Scholarship in 1911, Naviasky also received two King's Prizes from the South Kensington College for drawing.
The following year in 1912, aged just eighteen, he became the youngest student accepted into the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he produced one of his finest works, the contemplative Portrait of a Rabbi (Ben Uri Collection, previously owned by distinguished art critic, Brian Sewell (1931-2015), champion of Jewish émigré artists in Britain).
Naviasky received a Royal Exhibition award and continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London. On completion of his studies he returned to Leeds, where he pra