Reginald Gray (1930–2013) was a professional portraitist. Born in Dublin, he studied at the National College of Art and Design, and became a designer for the Pike and Gate Theatres in Dublin and the Lyric Theatre in London. In the late 1950s and early 1960s Gray was involved with the School of London artists led by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. He painted Samuel Beckett, and his portrait of Bacon is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. He held his first one-man exhibition at the Abbott and Holder Gallery in London in 1960. After moving to Paris in the 1960s he painted many private and well-known subjects including Juliette Binoche, Helena Bonham Carter, Yves Saint Laurent and the Prince of Brunei. Director Kerry Franzman made a film on the life of Gray, Portrait of a Portrait Artist, that was shown at the New York Film Festival in 2001.
