A Lineage of Teachers and Students, from the Fifteenth through the Twentieth Century
by Tom Phillips, RA.

Brian Eno by Tom Phillips
Oil on canvas, 26.7 x 19.1 cm, 1984-85
NPG (60)

Self-portrait by Tom Phillips
Oil on board, 20 x 16.7 cm, 1989
NPG (156)

In 1964 I taught BRIAN ENO (b. 1948) at the Ipswich Art School.

Some years earlier, I [Tom Phillips, b. 1936] was taught by:

1. FRANK AUERBACH (b.1931) the pupil of

2. DAVID BOMBERG (1890 - 1957) who studied with

3. W.R. SICKERT (1860 - 1942) who studied with

4. EDGAR DEGAS (1834 - 1917) who studied with

5. J.A.D. INGRES (1780 - 1867) who studied with

6. J.L. DAVID (1748 - 1825) who was the pupil of

7. J.M. VIEN (b. Montpelier 1716 d. Paris 1809. He was head of the school at Rome and also designed masques etc. Buried in the Pantheon. Stiffish neo-classicist who studied under

8. C.J. NATOISE (b. Paris 1700 d. Paris 1777) who also directed the French School at Rome. Designed tapestries and decorations and was unusual in that he provided a garden of classical sculpture for his students to draw in. He was the pupil of

9. F. LE MOINE (b. Paris 1688 d. Paris 1737) who painted the Hercules Room at Versailles and was Premier Peintre du Roi. Committed suicide after a period of setbacks and emotional turbulence. He was the pupil of

10. L. GALLOCHE (b. Paris 1670 d. Paris 1761) who was also a musician. Made a journey to Rome. Lodgings in Louvre. Pupil of

11. LOUIS DE BOULOGNE LE JEUNE (b. Paris 1654 - d. Paris 1733) who copied Raphael Frescoes for the Gobelins Tapestry works. Also Premier Peintre du Roi. Studied under his father

12. LOUIS DE BOULOGNE LE VIEUX (b. Paris 1609 d. Paris 1674) who worked at Versailles and was one of the founders of The Academy. Pupil of

13. JACQUES BLANCHARD (b. Paris 1600 d. Paris 1638) who was called “The French Titian” and had been much influenced by work seen on a trip to Venice. He was the pupil of

14. NICOLAS BOLLERY of whom little is known except that he died in Paris in 1630 and studied under his father

15. JEROME BOLLERY who was active in Paris from 1530 onwards. He was the assistant to

16. PRIMATICCIO (1504 -1570) when he worked on The Louvre. Primaticcio was the head of the School of Fontainbleu and was the assistant of

17. GIULIO ROMANO (1499 - 1546) in the decoration of the Palazzo Té etc. G.R. the only non-English painter mentioned by Shakespeare. He entered at the age of 10 the studio of

18. RAPHAEL (1483 - 1520) of whom little need be said by way of explanation! He of course was the pupil of

19. PERUGINO (1445 - 1523) who studied under

20. VERROCHIO (1435 - 1488) where the trail gets a little more difficult and probably gets lost amongst goldsmiths to end up via St Luke with Tubalcain and lead through dim paths to a very hairy artist painting bison on a wall by the light of burning rushes.

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