Art of the United Kingdom a preserved shark. The Tate gallery and eventually the Royal Academy also gave them exposure. The influence of Saatchi's generous and wide-ranging patronage was to become a matter of some controversy, as was that of Jay Jopling, the most influential London gallerist. The "Sensation" exhibition of works from the Saatchi Collection was controversial in both the UK and the US, though in different ways. At the Royal Academy press-generated controversy centred on "Myra", a very large image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey, but when the show travelled to New York City, opening at the Brooklyn Museum in
Alexander Talbot Rice of Edinburgh and Pope Benedict XVI. In 2007 he exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, USA. Talbot-Rice is currently painting a body of work from a studio at the Marrinsky Ballet in St Petersburg. Alexander Talbot Rice Alexander Thomas Talbot-Rice (born 4 August 1969 in London) is a British society portrait artist. Talbot-Rice is the son of David and Sylvia Talbot-Rice and was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire which he entered on a fine art scholarship. After Durham University, he gained a scholarship to The Charles Cecil School (1995-1997) followed by The Florence Academy of Art (1997-2000) where