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THE WILLIAM LOCK PORTRAIT PRIZE

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£20,000 for the most timeless portrait with a real feeling for paint and its aesthetic potential.

 

The 2021 winner is Frances Bell RP for ‘Self Portrait’

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Only 1 day to go until our Annual Exhibition 2022 Only 1 day to go until our Annual Exhibition 2022 opens to the public. There is a fantastic collection of portraits this year, including the Royal Wall: to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee the Royal Society of Portrait Painters is honoured to show a curated selection of portraits of our monarch by past and present member artists, alongside our Annual Exhibition. This is a must see feature of this year's show. Image: Antony Williams VPRP NEAC (@antonywilliams1410) 'My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below'. Egg tempera. 122 x 87 cm (134 x 99 cm framed). For Sale.
#RPExhibition: On the occasion of H.M The Queen's #RPExhibition: On the occasion of H.M The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the RP presents a Royal Wall including 8 portraits of the Queen painted over five decades.   #AntonyWilliams on painting H.M The Queen:   ‘My approach to painting The Queen was to paint Her Majesty in the same way that I would tackle any other portrait, in working from intense observation of the subject, which can often produce as a result a heightened sense of realism.’   Antony Williams trained at Farnham College of Art and Portsmouth University in the UK. He works almost exclusively in egg tempera which can be a painstaking and exacting medium, but which allows him to express a deep feeling about the look of the world. All of his work is based on direct and intense observation, where every surface detail is given almost equal and constant consideration.   Video: Antony Williams VPRP NEAC, HM The Queen, Private Collection, 122 x 96 cm | @mallgalleries
Just 2 days until our Annual Exhibition 2022 opens Just 2 days until our Annual Exhibition 2022 opens to the public. This annual exhibition is an occasion for the public to enjoy the Society's artist members' most recent works and to discover new talents selected amongst thousands of applications for this show. It is a celebration of the very best in contemporary portraiture nationally and internationally. You can learn more about commissioning portraits from many of the leading portrait painters in the world. Annabel Elton (annabelelton@mallgalleries.com), our Portrait Commission Advisor will be available throughout the exhibition to talk more about the commissioning process. The exhibition will be open from Thursday 5 May until Saturday 14 May (10am—5pm). We look forward to meeting you all there. Image: Artist and Patron, Portrait of Daren Burney. Jamie Routley @jamieroutleyartist Oil. 123 x 101 cm. NFS.
#RPExhibition: The RP Exhibition opens next week, #RPExhibition: The RP Exhibition opens next week, on Thursday 5 May at #MallGalleries! On the occasion of H.M The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the RP presents a Royal Wall including 8 portraits of the Queen painted over five decades. #Susan Ryder on painting H.M The Queen: ‘I painted Her Majesty over four sittings in the magnificent Green Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace. The Queen kind- ly often extending her sitting time. I was also able to paint on after the sittings had ended for as long as I liked. Not taking photographs this was very important for me as I work from what I see and from memory.’ Susan Ryder was elected a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, serving the latter as Vice President from 2002 to 2008. Video: Susan Ryder paints The Queen | RP Annual Exhibition 2022 | @mallgalleries
#PlatinumJubilee: The Royal Society of Portrait Pa #PlatinumJubilee: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) Annual Exhibition 2022 is around the corner! To commemorate their Patron, H.M The Queen's platinum Jubilee, the RP is presenting a collection of portraits of The Queen. This includes Robbie Wraith's portrait ' Study for Her Majesty the Queen for the Portrait Commissioned for Shell'. Robbie left school at 16, and studied in Italy and England with Pietro Annigoni, at his invitation: this close association lasted until Annigoni’s death, including as assistant during Annigoni’s cycle of frescoes in Ponte Buggianese. Since then he has had thirty eight one-man exhibitions in Britain, Europe, China and the USA. He has work in the collection of HM The Queen, as well as more than 40 pictures in the pri- vate collection of HRH The Prince of Wales, and also in the Royal Collection Windsor, The Vat- ican, Chatsworth, The National Trust, The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, Oxford and Cambridge Universities and many others. Portrait sitters have included Her Majesty the Queen, Nelson Mandela, the 11th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and many others. The exhibition will present a series of notes from Robbie's personal diaries, giving insights about his experience painting The Queen. Video: Robbie Wraith paints The Queen | RP Annual Exhibition 2022. | @mallgalleries
#OnlineExhibition: The Royal Society of Portrait P #OnlineExhibition: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) Annual Exhibition is already available online! The Show opens on Thursday 5 May and will be on view until Saturday 14 May at Mall Galleries. The exhibition includes a collection of portraits to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of our Patron H.M. The Queen. Never exhibited together before, in these works, which have been painted over five decades of her reign, we can see the way her image has evolved. The RP 'Royal Wall' includes June Mendoza's portrait 'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II', Commissioned for the Royal GreenJackets – Winchester Barracks. June studied for two years at St Martin’s School of Art and then spent a few years as an actress on the West End. June has painted individuals from all walks of life and has an impressive list of notable sitters to her name. Mendoza painted the Queen five times. Her portraits are in public and private collections internationally, including the National Portrait Gallery. #JuneMendoza, on painting H.M The Queen: ‘Painting the Queen was always going to be preceded by that little bit of extra tension; but Ma’am was patient, cooperative and professional, and, of course, far more experienced as a sitter than most, as she has had to sit for so many of us over her years.’ Follow our link in bio to learn more about the exhibition and the Royal Wall, already available online. Image featured: June Mendoza OBE, RP, ROI, ' 'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II', 89 x 74 cm, oil on canvas, Commissioned for the Royal GreenJackets – Winchester Barracks | @mallgalleries
The Annual Exhibition is live on our website. You The Annual Exhibition is live on our website. You can already browse & buy the works, as well as commission a portrait with our Portrait Commission Advisor, Annabel Elton (annabelelton@mallgalleries.com). The RP Exhibition will be open from Thursday 5 May until Saturday 14 May (10am – 5pm) Every year, the RP exhibition offers the opportunity for exhibiting artists to win generous Prizes and Awards. This year, over £40,000 worth of cash Prizes and Awards will be given to the winners, including the RP Award (worth £2,000) with the theme of Self-Portrait. We look forward to seeing you at Mall Galleries next week! Follow our link in bio and click 'RP | Annual Exhibition' to lean more about the show. Image: Mary Jane Ansell (@maryjaneansell). 'Beauty and Valour'. Oil on aluminium. 30 x 30 cm (40 x 40 cm framed). For Sale.
This portrait by Olivia Arts will feature in this This portrait by Olivia Arts will feature in this year's Annual Exhibition. The exhibition is open from 5 May 2022 to 14 May 2022. Olivia studied @charlescecilstudios where students are classically trained in the art of painting and portraiture. A portrait commission is a wonderful experience; not only is taking part in a portrait fascinating but also it results in an enduring work of art. Our expert Commissions Consultant, Annabel Elton, excels at enabling people to find the right artist for their commission and then advising and supporting them throughout the process, making it easy and enjoyable. If you would like to explore the idea of commissioning a portrait please contact Annabel Elton at annabelelton@mallgalleries.com or 020 7968 0963. Image: Olivia Arts (@liv_arts). Giulio. Oil. 60 x 50 cm
#liveonline : Royal Society of Portrait Painters A #liveonline : Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2022 is now available on our website! AN EXHIBITION OF OVER 200 WORKS OF ART CELEBRATING THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE 5 – 14 MAY 2022 To honour RP patron, Her Majesty the Queen, we have put together an additional special collection of portraits of her painted by our member artists. They represent her reign to the present day and demonstrate a wide array of artistic styles, sizes, mediums, and methods. Image: Her Majesty The Queen by Benjamin Sullivan RP NEAC @benjaminsullivanrp
Mark Roscoe (@markroscoeart) recently completed th Mark Roscoe (@markroscoeart) recently completed this portrait of Lady Paton. He told us a bit more about painting Lady Paton and his process behind the commission: "This is my portrait of Ann Paton. Lady Paton is an advocate and currently Scotland's longest-serving female judge. I received this commission after completing a portrait of her alongside 32 other members of the Faculty of advocates back in 2015. Ann is a very warm and compassionate person and it was very easy to spend time with her, often during sittings I forgot that I was there to do a job. I found this easy going nature to be in contrast to her formidable courtroom reputation and I tried to capture this contrast in her portrait." A portrait commission is a wonderful experience; not only is taking part in a portrait fascinating but also it results in an enduring work of art. Our expert Commissions Consultant, Annabel Elton, excels at enabling people to find the right artist for their commission and then advising and supporting them throughout the process, making it easy and enjoyable. If you would like to explore the idea of commissioning a portrait please contact Annabel Elton at annabelelton@mallgalleries.com or 020 7968 0963.
This annual exhibition is an occasion for the publ This annual exhibition is an occasion for the public to enjoy the Society's artist members' most recent works and to discover new talents selected amongst thousands of applications for this show. It is a celebration of the very best in contemporary portraiture nationally and internationally. The exhibition is open online (link in bio) and will be open @mallgalleries from 5 May 2022 to 14 May 2022. NFS Image: Frederick Albrow (@frederickalbrow). Martina. Oil. 50 x 40 cm (64 x 54 cm framed). For Sale.
We are delighted to announce that our Annual Exhib We are delighted to announce that our Annual Exhibition is now available to view online. Please follow the link in our bio to view the works. Image: Alastair Adams PPRP. Professor Sir David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham 2009-2021. Oil. 105 x 79 cm (123 x 97 cm framed). #alistairadams #royalsocietyofportraitpainters #nationalportraitgallery #mallgalleries #nationalportraits #societyportraits #societyportraitpainter #royalsocietyportrait #royalsocietymembers #londonclubs #londoninstitutions #londonsocietys #portraitcomission #professionalportraitartist #oilpaintportrait #professionalportraiture #importantcomission #royalsocietymember #celebratoryevents #lifemoments #jobpromotion
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In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which connected him with artists such as Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews and the School of London more broadly, Saumarez Smith roots Wonnacott's approach in his commitment to the discipline of drawing, his acute skills in observational analysis and the mechanics of graphic invention that makes his visual response to the world so memorable. Alongside commissioned portraits created in the grandest of architectural spaces, from naval bases to the Painted Hall at Greenwich and including John Major in 10 Downing Street and the Royal Family in Buckingham Palace, he has produced a revealing diary of self-portraits stretching back from his early teens and landscape paintings of light and sky which are celebrations of his native Essex coastline. In presenting the full range of Wonnacott's impressive oeuvre, the scope of the artist's remarkable achievement is revealed.The figurative painter's remarkable achievement is given fresh, and deserved, focus in Charles Saumarez Smith's new book which will be released on 5 September! Find out more and pre-order the book here www.lundhumphries.com/collections/coming-soon/products/john-wonnacottImages: Book design: Wolfe Hall @wolfehall.studio. Published by Lund Humphries @lhartbooks. Featuring: John Wonnacott, 'Self-Portrait with an Apple for G', 2017, oil on canvas, 36.8 × 36.8cm (14 1⁄2 × 14 1⁄2 in). Photo credit: @royalsocietyofportraitpainters ... See MoreSee Less

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