1. Margaret J Hambling was born on 23 October 1945 and is a British artist.
16 Facts About Maggi Hambling
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Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk to Barclays bank cashier and local politician Harry Smyth Leonard Hambling and Marjorie.
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Maggi Hambling had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older than Hambling.
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Maggi Hambling was not as close to him as she was to her mother but when her father retired at the age of 60, she gave him some oil paints and discovered that he had a knack for painting; he went on to have seven well-received solo shows, and exhibited twice at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; his paintings were owned by George Melly, Delia Smith, and Paul Bailey, among others, and are held in public and private collections including in America and Australia.
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Maggi Hambling first studied art under Yvonne Drewry at the Amberfield School in Nacton.
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Maggi Hambling then studied at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing from 1960 under Cedric Morris and Lett Haines at Benton End, then at Ipswich School of Art, Camberwell, and finally the Slade School of Art at UCL, graduating in 1969.
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Maggi Hambling is known for her intricate land and seascapes, including a celebrated series of North Sea paintings.
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In 1980 Maggi Hambling became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery, after which she produced a series of portraits of the comedian Max Wall.
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Maggi Hambling was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to paint Professor Dorothy Hodgkin in 1985.
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Maggi Hambling is a patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Maggi Hambling formed a relationship with a fellow artist, Victoria Dennistoun, from a family of horse racing jockeys and trainers, who was married to John Lawrence, aristocrat and horse racing journalist.
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Tory Lawrence and Maggi Hambling have been together ever since, living in a cottage near Saxmundham in Suffolk.
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The artists' model, Soho muse, and memoirist died in 1999 and Maggi Hambling produced a posthumous volume of charcoal portraits of her.
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Maggi Hambling once said that she would not speak during a television show if she could not smoke.
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The camerawoman had stated she would not work with someone who did; Maggi Hambling stuck to her word and did not speak.
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Maggi Hambling gave up smoking in 2004 and was involved in the campaign against the total ban on smoking in public places in England which took effect on 1 July 2007.