Philip naviasky biography

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.

Philip Naviasky was born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in Leeds, England on 14 January and entered Leeds School of Fine Arts on a scholarship in.

Philip Naviasky was born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in Leeds, England on 14 January and entered Leeds School of Fine Arts on a scholarship in.

Portrait and landscape painter, born and lived in Leeds, of Polish extraction.

Philip Naviasky (14 January – 19 June ) was an.

Philip Naviasky was an English artist based in Leeds.

Biography.

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