| Andrew Tift | |
| Birth Date: | 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Walsall, England |
| Occupation: | Painter |
Andrew Tift (born 1968) is a British realist portraitist.
Andrew Tift was born in 1968 in Walsall, England.[1] He was educated at the Stafford College of Art.[1] [2] He then graduated from the University of Central England.[1]
He is a realist portraitist.[2] In 1998, he did a portrait of Tony Benn, a Labour Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001.[3] He also did a portrait of Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, who served as a Labour Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2009.[2] His portrait of Ken Livingstone, who served as the Labour Mayor of London from 2000 to 2008, has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery since 2014.[4] He was also commissioned by the House of Lords to do a portrait of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington.
He was the recipient of the BP Travel Award in 1995 for Sayonara Pet.[2] In 2006, he received the BP Portrait Award for his triptych of Kitty Garman, Lucian Freud's first wife, entitled Kitty.[2] [5] The triptych is now at the New Art Gallery in Walsall.[5]
He resides in the West Midlands.[2]