The de Laszlo Foundation award, sponsored by the de Laszlo Foundation, aims to encourage young artists.
It is worth £3,000 and is awarded, together with a silver medal, to an artist under thirty-five years old judged to have submitted the best portrait.
2025 Winner: Jacob Skinnard, ‘Familiar Faces’
2025 Shortlist:
Sam Claydon ‘Tomas’
Aelfred Hilman, ‘On Alnmouth Beach’
Ava Liberace, ‘Joseph in Blue’
Luke Fj Nolan, ‘Portrait of a Miao Girl’
View winning portraits from previous years below.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2024 winner: Stefano Curti , ‘Lukas Sheehan’
2024 runner up: Joshua Donkor, ‘Worlds Apart’
2023 Phoebe-Louise Stewart Carter
2022 Laura Hope
2021 Marco Bizzari
2020 Nneka Uzoigwe winner
2019 – Joshua Waterhouse
2018 – Emma Hopkins
2017 – Jamie Routley
2016 – Stephanie Kullberg
2015 – Lorna May Wadsworth
2014 – Flora Watson
2013- Kelvin Okafor
2012 – David Sargerson
2011 – Martha Zmpounou
2010 – Norman Long
2009 – Emma Wesley
2008 – Ruth Murray
2007 – Patrick Bremer
2006 – Frances Bell
2005 – Emma Wesley
2004 – Brendan Kelly
