F. Albert Wang – Artist Biography

F. Albert Wang had an unusual start to his artistic journey. When work brought him to Washington, D.C. in 2016, Wang decided to take evening classes on drawing and oil painting at Smithsonian Associates. In his spare time, he regularly frequented the National Gallery of Art and was inspired by the works of the old masters and, in particular, Rembrandt’s self portrait. A true believer of learning art from nature and the old masters, Wang began to study oil painting as a self-taught apprentice of old masters by rigorously copying their major works, including those by Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals, Constable, Renoir, and Sargent. Wang also traveled and studied original paintings housed in world famous museums, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, MFA Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Frick Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Petit Palais, Versailles Museum, Rijksmuseum, Galleria dell’ Accademia (Venice and Florence), Uffizi, Pitti, Vatican Museum, Galleria Borghese, Doria Pamphilj, Pinacoteca di Brera, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Museo Sorolla, National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Alte Nationalgalerie, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kunsthistorisches, Lenbachhaus, Alte Pinakothek, Tate Britain, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery of London, Courtauld Gallery, and Wallace Collection. At each museum, Wang spent countless hours sketching and studying the composition, value, color, and brush strokes of the old masters.

Since 2018, Wang took several drawing and painting workshops at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia under Juliette Aristides, Kerry Dunn, and Lea Wight, a painting workshop under Robert Liberace in Nashville, the in-studio drawing and painting classes at the Art Students League of New York under Garin Baker, Leonid Gervits, Sam Goodsell, Max Ginsburg, Gregg Kreutz, Ricky Mujica, Umakanth Thumrugoti, and Costa Vivagiakis, and a summer intensive program under Paul Ingbretson at the Ingbretson studio in Lawrence, MA, and a plein-air painting workshop under Tom Dunlay in Andover, Maine. Wang has been creating his own work in various genres, including portraiture, figure, still life, landscape, and genre paintings with realistic representation. Wang believes that a great work of art should speak for itself without the need for interpretation by pundits or explanation by its artist. Today, Wang devotes himself to his love of painting and aspires to create work that is inspirational and timeless.