David Cobley

David Cobley (born 27 June 1954) is an English portrait and figure painter and founder of Bath Artists' Studios.

[1] David Hugh Cobley was born in Northampton in 1954.

He dropped out of Liverpool College of Art in 1972, but was briefly taught there by Welsh landscape painter Peter Prendergast.

He completed a degree in Comparative Culture at Sophia University during his nine-year stay in Japan.

[2] Five years later, The National Portrait Gallery commissioned him to paint a portrait of the scientist Sir Martin John Evans.