The Society presents the following prizes and awards annually:
- The William Lock Portrait Prize
- The de Laszlo Foundation Award
- The RP Prize for the Best Small Portrait
- The Raw Umber Studios Prize
Annual Exhibition
– – 10am to 5pm | North, East & West Galleries
Admission £6, Free for Friends of Mall Galleries and under 25s. Concessions available. No booking required.
Celebrating the best
in contemporary portraiture
The country’s leading portrait exhibition presents some of the best painted and drawn portraiture selected from both national and international submissions. The work on display is diverse, bringing together high-profile commissions of public figures, alongside more personal portraits of less familiar faces.
The exhibition promotes artistic excellence in portraiture, offering major prizes and an excellent opportunity for commissions.
“The Society’s Annual Open Exhibition is probably the largest and most significant celebration of contemporary portrait painting in Europe. The show is always selected by a jury of practising portrait painters, no critics, no journalists, no celebrities – just painters.”
-Anthony Connolly – President
Susan Ryder RP, ‘The Ramsay Triptych’
