2018 Prizewinners Announced
After a day of judging on Tuesday, seven prizes were awarded this year during the Private View of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
See our Prizes and Sponsors Page for the 2018 portrait prize winners
Pre-selection results
This year 2,142 portrait works were entered online in the first stage of the judging process for the Open Call of our Annual Exhibition. Excitingly, submission numbers are up 9% on previous years! For the second and final stage of the submissions process, the physical portraits are brought to London to be seen by the…
Why America comes to the UK for its portraits
British artists have painted portraits of judges, academics and private individuals from America for many years. We have however noticed a recent surge in interest from across the water. The UK’s world class status for portraiture must be the long term draw for commissions but this flurry suggests something else is happening. One theory is that…
Benjamin Sullivan wins BP Portrait Award
In creating ‘Breech!’ Benjamin wanted to celebrate the love that had come into their lives and reflect on the worrisome time that the couple faced during Edith’s birth. Breech! depicts the artist’s wife Virginia breastfeeding their 8 month old daughter Edith, at a time when Sullivan says ‘a sense of calm descended after the usual period disarrangement…
Rising Stars, two very different new Members
David Caldwell and Emma Hopkins have been elected Membership Artists who represent very different approaches to portraiture. These new Members have been through the Society’s very rigorous selection process to achieve full Membership. David Caldwell David Caldwell was born in Helensburgh in the West of Scotland in 1977. He studied at the Glasgow School of…
Harriet Pattinson
Harriet Pattinson is now painting at her studio in London having trained for three and a half years at Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy. She graduated in 2016. Since then she has been selected from among nearly 2,000 artists for the open section of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ 2017 exhibition. Harriet likes to paint…
2017 Portrait Prize Winners
2017 major portrait prize winners announced. Prizes are awarded for works exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. This year’s Annual Exhibition runs at Mall Galleries until 19 May 2017 and includes over 200 portraits by more than 100 artists. The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture Shawn McGovern, James The Ondaatje Prize is the…
BP Portrait Award – two out of three!
Two out of the three shortlisted artists for the BP Portrait Award 2017 are Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ members Antony Williams Antony’s shortlisted portrait is titled ‘Emma’. This portrait is painted in egg tempera, an unusual and painstaking medium using egg yolk to…
Photo shoot at June Mendoza’ studio
Portrait photographer Aliona Adrianova has taken portraits of members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. These form part of her series on contemporary artists in the setting of their own studios. Here, the photographer sets out to capture the true personae of the artists as creators. At the same time she explores their special affinity with art,…