Luis Álvarez Roure is a Puerto Rican realist painter based in New Jersey. He is known for his figure paintings as well as his portraits of American public figures such as Philip Glass, Joshua Bell, Paul Volcker, Cándido Camero, Monsignor William Linder, and Octavio Vázquez.
His strengths have been described as "his draftsmanship (...) taken directly from the paintings of past masters" and "the empathy he so evidently feels with his sitters" by Peter Trippi, editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.
Luis Alvarez Roure at the 24th Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition. Atlanta, GA. April, 2022
Philip Glass. 2016. Oil on board. Collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
"Memento" Portrait of composer Octavio Vazquez. Oil on linen. 36 x 24 inches.
Portrait of violinist Joshua Bell. Oil on linen.
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the Volcker shock. He previously served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979.
Volcker in 2014
Portrait of Paul A. Volcker by Luis Alvarez Roure
Volcker in 2014 with Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke