{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Stephen Finer | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1949 <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | nationality = | spouse = | field = | training = Dulwich College | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | elected = | website = {{URL|http://www.stephenfiner.com/}} | bgcolour = }}
'''Stephen Finer''' is a London-based artist, active since the 1980s.
==Work== Finer participated in "British Art from the Arts Council Collection 1940–80" at the Hayward Gallery, 'Collazione Inglese ll' at the Venice Biennale and was in the touring exhibition, 'Men on Women', 'The Portrait Now' at the National Portrait Gallery and 'Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000' held to celebrate the millennium also at the National Portrait Gallery, where his portrait of David Bowie is in the permanent collection.<ref name=npg>[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw09556/David-Bowie?LinkID=mp06534&role=sit&rNo=2 National Portrait Gallery: portrait of David Bowie]</ref> There have been many solo exhibitions.
His paintings are in the public collections of the Arts Council, Atkinson Art Gallery, British Council, Contemporary Art Society, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Magdalene College, National Portrait Gallery,<ref name=npg/> Pallant House Gallery, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Towner Gallery, Tullie House, University of Sussex. thumb|Dulwich College (8667828661)
==Subjects== Many of Stephen Finer's heads and figures are not identified but sometimes he has painted the same subjects several times. There are a number of paintings of Gill Bastedo, David Bowie, Iman, Hartley Shawcross, Yehudi Menuhin, Patrick Garland and others, including Marlene Dietrich, whom Finer met in London.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * The Portrait Now published by the National Portrait Gallery {{ISBN|1-85514-098-5}}. * 'Intimacy and Mortality Finer's People' by Robin Gibson, published by the Charleston Trust & later adapted as {{ISBN|0-9528502-7-3}}. * 'Stephen Finer: Presence and Identity', by Martin Golding, Modern Painters Magazine {{ISSN|0953-6698}}
==External links== * [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp08176 Portraits of and by Stephen Finer] in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London * [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCRN075611183&indx=1&recIds=ETOCRN075611183&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=1&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&frbg=&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1441704475762&srt=rank&mode=Basic&vl(488279563UI0)=any&dum=true&tb=t&vl(freeText0)=Stephen%20Finer&vid=BLVU1 'Stephen Finer: Presence and Identity' by Martin Golding details] in British Library * [http://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-GB/search?filter_text=Stephen+Finer&filter_group=all Bridgeman Art Library -copyright protected images] * [http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artist/finer-stephen Stephen Finer, Arts Council Collection] * [http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/stephen-finer-1949/objects/all/initial/a "Woman of thirty seven", British Council Collection] * [http://www.viewgallery.co.uk/assets/brochures/Stephen_Finer_brochure.pdf View Gallery's Stephen Finer brochure pdf] * [http://www.npg.org.uk/business/publications/painting-the-century.php Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces] {{ISBN|1-85514-289-9}} (hbk); {{ISBN|1-85514-313-5}} (pbk)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Finer, Stephen}} Category:British contemporary painters Category:People educated at Dulwich College Category:1949 births Category:Living people