Pietro Annigoni 'Portrait Study' mexican artists David Rankin’s landscapes are underpinned

David Rankin’s landscapes are underpinned by three themes: Western and Asian cultures

forcing the viewer to raise their eyes to where the setting sun and urban pollution tinge the clouds yellow

To fully behold this work’s physical and iconographical beauty

Signed: Signed and numbered in margin in pencil below image: P/P 2/2 A LEACH JONES

Pietro Annigoni 'Portrait Study' mexican artists David Rankin’s landscapes are underpinnedBorn in Milan and based in Florence, Pietro Annigoni spent his artistic career reviving the Renaissance. With the same drama and depth as the Old Masters before him, Annigoni was esteemed most for his portraits, the subjects of which include Queen Elizabeth II, the Pope, British and American political leaders and members of European, Middle Eastern and Indian aristocracy. The subject of a feature documentary, Annigoni is represented in the British