A L E X A N D E R C R E S W E L L, KFO

CURRICULUM VITAE

Born 1957



Educated Winchester College, England
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Byam Shaw School of Drawing & Painting, London

West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham



Public Exhibitions:

2003 ‘Re-presenting Representation’
Arnot Art Museum, New York

2002 ‘Royal Treasures - A Golden Jubilee Celebration’
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London

2001 ‘In Ruins - Artists & Ruins’
The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath

1997 ‘Discerning Eye’
Mall Galleries, London



Solo Exhibitions:

2006 The Grand Scale - New Watercolors
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

2004 In Pursuit of Enlightenment - New Watercolors
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

2002 ‘Power & Glory - Sicilian Baroque’
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John Martin of London

2001 ‘Reflections of New York’
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

2000 ‘On Tour with the Prince’
Watercolours & Drawings Fair, London & The British Council touring exhibition: Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania

‘Out of the Ashes’ Watercolours of Windsor Castle
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Windsor Castle

1999 ‘South-Western Approaches - The Cornish Sublime’
New Academy Gallery, London

1998 ‘Grange Park & Arcadia’
Grange Park Opera, Hampshire

1997 ‘In an Antique Land - Egypt’
Spink-Leger Pictures, St. James’s, London

1995 ‘Hong Kong & China‘
Spink & Son at the China Club, Hong Kong

1994 ‘Windsor Castle after the Fire’ and ‘Russia & Imperial Europe’
Spink & Son, St. James’s, London

1992 ‘Italy and Czechoslovakia’
Cadogan Gallery, London

1991 ‘The Silent Houses of Britain’
Spink & Son, St. James’s, London

‘Country Houses’
Atlantic Hotel, Jersey

1990 ‘Silent Houses - working drawings’
Addison Ross Gallery, Chelsea, London

1989 A Selection of Watercolours
Arthur Andersen & Co., London

‘Interiors’
Fine Art Trade Guild Gallery, London

1987 ‘Silent Houses’
The Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London

‘Lakes and Lake Designs’
Jonathan Poole Gallery, London

1986 ‘Country Houses’
Addison Ross Gallery, London

1985 ‘Paintings from Petra’
Brussels Europa Hotel

‘Watercolours of South Africa’
Addison Ross Gallery, London

1984 ‘Jersey & the Channel Islands’
Le Gallais Gallery, Jersey

‘A Tour of South Africa’
Crake Gallery, Johannesburg



Group exhibitions include:

2002 ‘A Select Seven’ W.H. Patterson, London

2000 ‘The Crown Estate’ New Academy Gallery, London

1994 ‘Venice in Peril’ (in aid of the Venice in Peril Fund)
W.H. Patterson, London

1992 ‘Enchanted Gardens’ (in aid of SAVE Britain’s Heritage)
Richmond Gallery, London

1992 ‘Follies’ (in aid of the Folly Fellowship)
New Academy Gallery, London



Collections (partial list):

The Royal Collection, HM Queen Elizabeth, London & Windsor (27 works)

The Forbes Collection, New York (9 works)

HRH The Prince of Wales (7 works)

The Frick Collection, New York

The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.



Commissions (partial list):

Duchess of Northumberland, Alnwick Gardens Project (2002/3)

HM The Queen, Lying in State of HM The Queen Mother (2002)

House of Lords, Lying in State of HM The Queen Mother (2002)
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The Royal Collection, Windsor Restored, 1998
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Coutts Bank, 100th Birthday Gift to HM The Queen Mother

The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle after the fire of 1992

The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture

Duchy of Cornwall

The Parliamentary Art Collection, Westminster

English Heritage

HSBC Middle East

Royal Bank of Scotland

The British School at Rome

British Broadcasting Corporation

GNI Ltd

Chartered Association of Certified Accountants

The London Capital Club

Speyhawk plc

British & Commonwealth

Guinness Peat

Glaxochem

Wiggins Teape

Burmah Castrol

Cawdor Castle Tourism

... and numerous private commissions throughout Europe, the Americas and the Far East



Publications & Broadcasts:

2000 ‘Out of the Ashes - Watercolours of Windsor Castle’ The Royal Collection

1991 ‘The Silent Houses of Britain’ Macdonald

1993 ‘Silent Houses’ 40-minute documentary for Central Television



Posts and Awards:

2006 K.F.O. Invested as Knight First Class of the Order of Francis I by the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George

1991-99 Tutor at The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, London

1998 Official Artist on HRH The Prince of Wales’s tour of Central Europe



Clubs & Associations:

I.N.T.B.A.U. (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism)

Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, New York

Art Workers’ Guild, London

Port Navas Yacht Club, Cornwall, UK

Bentley Drivers Club