Person    | Male  Born 28/10/1933  Died 30/5/2018

Michael Noakes

Categories: Art

Painter. Former President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Chairman of the Contemporary Portrait Society. His subjects include Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Bill Clinton and Pope Benedict XVI. Husband of the writer Vivien Noakes.

His Wikipedia page and his obituary in The Guardian newspaper give many details of his life.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk and Andrew Behan.

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Michael Noakes

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Michael and Vivien Noakes

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