Jan Mikulka nació en la actual República Checa en 1980.
Jan Mikulka studied at the Academy of Fine Art, Prague. His work has been seen in exhibitions in the Czech Republic and the UK including theThreadneedle Prize (2013), the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2014 and in the BP Portrait Award 2011.
The portrait is of Sebastian, the brother of a friend of the artist. In creating this work, Mikulka was influenced by nineteenth-century British painters of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly in the choice of rich violet and green tones. He says: ‘I wanted the background forest scenery to express the personality of the sitter.’
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