Tai-Shan Schierenberg RP

Tai-Shan Schierenberg

Tai Shan Schierenberg lives and works in London. He graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1987 and in 1989 won first prize in the National Portrait Gallery's John Player Portrait Award. He was then commissioned to paint Sir John Mortimer for the Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery also holds his portraits of Lord Carrington from 1994, Lord Sainsbury, 2002 and most recently Seamus Heaney from 2004. Other noted commissions include Professor Stephen Hawking, Sir John Madejski and a double portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Image: Tai-Shan Schierenberg RP, Royal Portrait (courtesy Flowers Gallery)

Notable Sitters

RP Member Tai-Shan Schierenberg has featured a number of notable sitters in his portraits, most exceptionally a royal portrait of H.M. The Queen and Prince Philip and:

• Lord Sainsbury

• Lord Carrington

• Duke of Devonshire

• Duchess of Westminster

• Professor Stephen Hawking