Tom Leveritt

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Tom Leveritt is half-American, half-British, 30, and currently living in New York City. He has won the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the UK's Royal Society of Portrait Painters, also various prizes at the National Portrait Gallery.In 2007 he entered a portrait of A.C Grayling oil, acrylic and enamel on panel, into the BP Portrait awards in London, National Gallery. He was a prominent member of the South Audley Street set, residing at 17a South Audley Street from 2002-2005.

Education Raised in Dallas, Texas, Tom was sent to boarding school in England at the age of 10. At 13 he won a full scholarship to Harrow School. He went on to study History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with a double First.

Influences Tom is a proponent of Noam Chomsky's ideas and a devotee of Thomas Pynchon.