Olga Sweet

My clients include the Duke of Argyll, Nacho Figueras (the Argentinian polo player and Ralph Lauren model), Stuart Weitzman (the renowned shoe designer), President Carter, Jean-Georges Vongerichten (the celebrated chef), numerous university presidents (such as Dr. Frances Fergusson, the President Emerita of Vassar College), and many senior executives (such as Karl von der Heyden, the former CFO and Vice Chair of PepsiCo).

Articles on my work have appeared in Palm Beach Illustrated, Greenwich Magazine, New York Lifestyles Magazine, Sunday Arts & Style, WAG, New Canaan, Darien + Rowayton, and other publications.

Queen Elizabeth has recommended that the British Red Cross auction my portrait of Her Majesty at one of its benefits this year. My portrait of Prince Harry has appeared in four publications.

My portraits have been auctioned at the preeminent charity benefits of the Hamptons, Palm Beach, New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and elsewhere. The benefits include those of UNICEF, the Hadassah Medical Center (of Israel), the Neil S. Hirsch Family Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County, the American Cancer Society of Palm Beach, the Naples Winter Wine Festival, the Bruce Museum of Greenwich, and the American ...

I earned a bachelor's degree and two masters' degrees in art and philosophy from Moscow Imperial University. I studied portraiture privately with Ronald Sherr and the late Dr. Robert Reed.

Mr. Sherr’s portraits of President George H.W. Bush and Colin Powell are in the National Portrait Gallery. His double portrait of President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush is in the Bush Presidential Library. Mr. Sherr has also painted portraits of: Nicholas Brady, the former Secretary of the Treasury; the late Senator John Heinz; Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy; James Florio, the former Governor of New Jersey; Dr. Harold Shapiro, the President Emeritus of Princeton University; and, many other dignitaries. Mr. Sherr is a former Professor of Portraiture at The Art Students League of New York.

Dr. Reed was Professor of Painting and Printmaking at the Yale University School of Art. His work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Bayly Museum. Dr. Reed was the founder and director of the Institute for Studio Studies in Auvillar, France.