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{"Id":1229,"Name":"Michael John Angel","Biography":"Born in England in 1946, Michael John Angel emigrated to Canada in 1961 and since then has divided his time between Canada and Italy.

In the late 1960s he studied in Florence with the renowned Pietro Annigoni, who introduced him to the techniques of the old masters. Mr. Angel is now regarded as one of the foremost traditional painters in North America, and his paintings and portraits hang in both public and private collections on both sides of the Atlantic.

While he has few peers in portrait painting, where his commissions read like a Who\u0026rsquo;s Who of corporate North America, Mr. Angel\u0026rsquo;s real passion is painting myths and allegories. Since the 1980s, he has been concentrating on these, painting murals and altarpieces in