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 JOSHUA WATERHOUSE Elected in 2024, Joshua is one of our newest members. Born in Newcastle in 1989, Joshua first completed a Foundation in Art & Design at Edinburgh College of Art before studying Fine Art & French at the University of Aberystwyth, graduating in 2014 with a First Class Honours. Joshua also spent a…
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…
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 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture is sponsored by Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC and the Ondaatje Foundation, this generous prize of £10,000 plus the Society’s Gold Medal is awarded for the most distinguished portrait of the year. The Prize was launched in 1995 and took the form of a commission to paint H.M. The Queen,…
ABOUT ANTONY Antony Williams works almost exclusively in egg tempera, which can be a painstaking and exacting medium, but one which allows him to express a feeling he has about the look of the world. ‘All my work is the product of direct and intense observation, which can produce as a result a heightened sense…
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. 2024 winner: Miriam Escofet, ‘”What will survive of us…”‘ View winning portraits from previous years below. PREVIOUS WINNERS 2023 – Martyn Harris 2022 – Catherine Creaney 2021 – Sandra Kuck…
