62:. As a child, he started copying works by Old Masters in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From a young age, Collins knew that he wanted to be an artist, although his interest and skill lay in a classical style that was out of favor in the late 20th century. Moving away from Modernism, he identified instead with works of 15th–19th century masters and their techniques and aesthetics.
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Collins has been teaching students of art for many years. In the 1990s, he was teaching night classes at the National Academy of Art, as well as "taking in the most promising students for private study." In the early 1990s, he founded the Water Street Atelier, which has trained dozens of
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