Unlike other portrait exhibitions, this exhibition is rigorously selected by professional portrait painters who themselves have been elected by their peers to the Society
Take this opportunity to enter your portrait for an important international exhibition, where you could enjoy
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During the RP’s Annual Exhibitions, our commissions consultants are on-hand to assist visitors with their commission enquiries. Visitors usually ask for an artist by name, so by logging the number of enquiries for each artist, we worked out the most highly sought-after artists of 2018. Alastair Adams claims first place, receiving the most enquiries. Former President…
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
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…
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…
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 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 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…
