ABOUT FRANCES Winner of the Burkes Peerage Foundation Award 2022 and the 2021 William Lock Portrait Prize, Frances was born in Cambridge, England in 1983. Because she has a prime interest in figurative classical style she left England to pursue a classical training in Florence at Charles. H. Cecil Studios in 2001, Her training was for…
The £2,000 RP Award is given to the artist whose work best represents the year’s chosen theme 2023 Winner: Zac Lee ’Sunday Afternoon’ This year’s theme was ”Clothing’
The Bulldog Trust gives a bursary of £5,000 to an up-and-coming portrait painter. The Bulldog Trust support the development of talent across the arts, they set up the Bulldog Bursary with the RP to encourage the perpetuation of the skills and excellence involved in professional portraiture. The winner receives the unique opportunity of learning…
The Contemporary Arts Trust’s objective is to assist deserving artists who show promise; to encourage them to remain in the arts and continue on their creative journey. Contemporary Arts Trust encourages every discipline within the Fine Applied Arts. Since its formation, the Trust has given more than £375,000 in prizes and awards. Contemporary Arts Trust is…
The Smallwood Architects Prize of £1,000, inaugurated in 2016, is awarded for a portrait in which architectural or interior features play an important part. 2023 winner: Martyn Harris ‘Paul’s Emporium’ View winning portraits from previous years below. PREVIOUS WINNERS 2022 – Catherine Creaney 2021 – Sandra Kuck 2020 – Stephen Wood 2019 – David…
ABOUT ROBBIE Robbie Wraith left school at 16, consciously avoiding art schools and ateliers, to study with Pietro Annigoni in Italy and London during most of the 1970s. He has had forty solo exhibitions in Britain, Europe, America, and China. His work is in the private collections of HM Queen Elizabeth 11 as well as…
ABOUT NEALE Collected by the Prince of Wales, Neale is a classical painter of high quality. Neale exhibits regularly with the NEAC and he shows at Panter and Hall, and the Russell Gallery. His work is also selected for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. COMMISSIONS Empty section. Edit page to add…
ABOUT JOHN WONNACOTT John Wonnacott was born in London in 1940 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1958-63. John taught drawing at Reading University and the Norwich school of art until 1985. He was represented by Marlborough Fine Art from 1980-88 and by Agnews from 1988-2011. John’s paintings are included in…
ABOUT MARTIN BROOKS Martin trained at the Royal College of Art where he was awarded the Royal College Drawing Prize and Madame Tussauds Prize for Figurative Art. Martin was awarded Arts Council funding to paint the Amish community in the US. Notable portraits include theoretical physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili, for the British Humanist…
ABOUT MIRIAM Miriam Escofet was born in Barcelona in 1967 and moved to the UK in 1979. The daughter of artists, she grew up surrounded by the rich visual lexicon of art. She studied 3D Design at Brighton School of Art and making still remains at the core of her practice. She started painting soon…
