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= Alan Sutherland =

Alan Gordon Dunnet Sutherland is a Scottish artist.

Early Life
He was born in Bombay, India in 1931, and lived there for the first three years of his life. Shortly after his 3rd birthday his parents moved back to Edinburgh where Alan spent his early formative years being educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh before graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1952.

Career
He has exhibited in The Royal Academy London, the Chelsea Society, the Society of Scottish Artists, the Paris Salon, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

Portrait sitters include HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Alec Douglas Home, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, film producer Robert Evans, various Lord Mayors of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and five past Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons.