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
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Commissioning a portrait from photographs
A portrait sometimes has to be created from reference photographs because it is not always possible to arrange sittings. These portraits are not mere copies but something deeper and more complex. For this you need an artist with special skills so finding the right artist is important. We recommend that you use our consultants…
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Two exhibitors on BP Portrait Award shortlist
Two of the four artists shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award have also selected for our Annual Portrait Exhibition at Mall Galleries in May: Congratulations to Miriam Escofet and Ania Hobson, see a short Interview with Ania Hobson. Members, including Antony Williams and Neale Worley will also be exhibiting. Image: Miriam Escofet ‘An Angel at my Table’ …
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Aliona Adrianova – Artist in the Portrait
Alongside our annual painted portrait exhibition there will be an exhibition of photography. As part of the ‘In the Studio‘ project Aliona Adrianova portrait photographer, was invited to capture Royal Society of Portrait Painters member artists in their creative spaces where they spend most of their time, thinking, researching, experimenting and creating work. She visited artists in their…
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Famous faces
The Annual Portrait Exhibition at Mall Galleries in May includes many quality portraits, some of which will depict faces you might recognise, including HM The Queen, Dame Judi Dench, Michael Eavis (founder of Glastonbury Festival), Sir Alan Parker (director of famous films Evita and Bugsy Malone among others), as well as Raymond Briggs (author and…
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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…
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Portrait artists who use photography
Commissioning a painted portrait from photographs Portrait painters who use photography fall into two distinct groups: artists who have the ability to create a painted portrait from your photographs, and artists whose natural creative process involves using photography which is the group discussed here. Portraits created using the artist’s own photography For many artists,…
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New Addition to our permanent collection
RP member Sam Dalby’s portrait of his friend, Justin Eckersley, has been donated to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ ‘People’s Portraits’ collection at Girton College, Cambridge. The new addition was unveiled at a reception in September where Sam gave an illuminating talk about the painting. Established in 2000, the permanent display is a…
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New Portrait Award –
The RP Award: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is delighted to announce a new £2,000 prize for portraiture, The RP Award. All works shown in the Annual Exhibition will be eligible. The award will be made to the artist whose work best represents the year’s chosen theme – which for the inaugural year, 2018, is ‘Friends’.…
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