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Michael Tippett attended the Royal College of Music (1923–1928) and was recognised as one of Britain's leading composers with the first performance of his three-part oratorio A Child of our Time, at the Adelphi Theatre in 1944. Tippett enjoyed a long career composing choral works, symphonies, concertos, string quartets and five operas, finding inspiration in Beethoven, Elizabethan madrigals, folk, jazz and blues. As Director of Music at Morley College, London from 1940, he was at the centre of innovative musical activity during World War Two. He went on to compose four operas including the greatly successful King Priam (1962). Appointed CBE in 1959, he was knighted in 1966.
The artist, who comes from Sheffield, was an exhibitor in the Gallery's Portrait Award exhibitions in the early 1980s.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett

Date

1989

Medium

acrylic on canvas

Measurements

H 107 x W 76.5 cm

Accession number

6043

Acquisition method

Commissioned, 1989

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

Martin H. Rose

b.1946

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(John) Bryan Jefferson, CBE, PRIBA The Royal Institute of British Architects
Professor Ronald Illingworth (1909–1990) Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
The Right Honourable Richard Austin Butler (1902–1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, Chancellor of the University of Sheffield (1959–1977) University of Sheffield, Heritage Collection
Martin Harris, an Art Student Sheffield Museums
Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett National Portrait Gallery, London