Royal Society of Portrait Painters | Prize Winners
Below is a list of the artists who have won prizes at the annual exhibitions of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters since 2013.
We would like to thank the individuals and companies who so generously award these prizes.
To submit your work to future open exhibitions and be in with a chance of winning a prize, find out more about our Call for Entries here.
If you are interested in sponsoring a prize at Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists, please contact Alistair Redgrift (Head of FBA Exhibitions) at exhibitions@mallgalleries.com
Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award for Classically Inspired Portraiture
2015: Miriam Escofet Assoc RP, Shubha
2016: Richard Foster RP, Trinity House
2017: Andrew Festing RP, Portrait of Count Alexis Limburg-Stirum at Walzin
2018: Paul Brason PPRP, Sarah Taylor, High Sheriff of Oxford
2019: Phoebe Dickinson, Rose at Houghton
2020: Joshua Waterhouse, Dame Glynis Breakwell
2021: Rupert Alexander, Jack Hudleston
2022: Frances Bell RP AROI, Gillian
The Changing Faces Prize
2013: Andrew James RP, My Father
2014: Saied Dai RP NEAC, Jonathan Miller
2015: Hero Johnson, Paulina
2016: Jan Mikulka, In the Park
2017: Daphne Todd OBE PPRP, Professor Susan Smith, Mistress of Girton
Contemporary Arts Trust Award (formerly The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award)
2013: Tim Benson ROI, Alison
2014: Jack Joiner, Portrait
2015: Emma Hopkins, Geri Morgan; Claire Anscomb, Veil
2017: Vania Comoretti, Dual
2018: Shawn McGovern, Jess and Hayden
2019: Yun Meng, Preoccupied with Something
The de Laszlo Foundation Award
2013: Kelvin Okafor, Melvin
2014: Flora Watson, Studio 26
2015: Lorna May Wadsworth, They Have Lunch Every Tuesday / Conversation Piece: Messrs Corbin & King
2016: Stephanie Kullberg, Portrait of Lisa
2017: Jamie Routley, Alex Liederman at 17
2018: Emma Hopkins RP, Doreen Wallace
2019: Joshua Waterhouse, The Engineer
2020: Nneka Uzoigwe, Lily Before the Play
2021: Marco Bizzarri, Silente I
2022: Laura Hope, Micheal
2023: Phoebe-Louise Stewart Carter, Self Portrait in the Winter
The Love & Legacy Prize (Sponsored by Seven Investment Management)
2014: Neil B Helyard, Ali
The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture
2013: Mark Roscoe, Changing Faces Commission: Olivia Roberts
2014: Jennifer McRae, Conversations with Duncan
2015: Brian Morris, Upp at Bäcken (Up the Creek)
2016: Lantian D, A Portrait of Roger Scruton
2017: Shawn McGovern, James
2018: James Hague, Mette
2019: Peter Kuhfeld RP NEAC, The Executive Chef
2020: Shuang Liu, Woman in a Stadtische Galerie
2021: Saied Dai RP NEAC, Portrait of the Artist's Wife
2022: Lantian, Man and a Window
2023: Toby Wiggins RP, Winter's Work; Russell Woodham at rest while laying a hazel hedge in the Dorset Style
The Prince of Wales’s Award for Portrait Drawing
2013: Toby Wiggins RP, Mary Spencer-Watson, Sculptor
2014: Antony Williams RP NEAC PS, Study for Andrew
2015: Jason Bowyer RP NEAC PS, Sammy G
2016: Graeme Wilcox, RF Head Study 2
2017: Bernadett Timko, Lucas
2018: Anna Pinkster, Em and Bruno
2019: Robbie Wraith RP, Esther
2020: Jack Freeman, Walkie Talkie
2021: Mantas Poderys, Self Portrait at the Age of 28
2022: Thomas Arthurton, Portrait Study
Raw Umber Studios Prize
2023: Simon Davis RP RBSA, Warren Ellis
The RP Award
2018: Saied Dai RP NEAC, Sisters
2019: James Hague RP, Tom
2020: Stephen Leho, The Most Important Thing in the World
2021: Phoebe Dickinson, Alethea
2022: Nneka Uzoigwe, Narcissus (Self Portrait)
2023: Zac Lee, Sunday Afternoon
The RP Prize for the Best Small Portrait
2020: Robbie Wraith RP, Studio Portrait
2021: Will Calver, Self Portrait in Hat
2022: Simon Davis RP, Taslima
2023: Carles Belda, Study for Something Never Ends
“Self” Prize (£20,000 Self-Portrait Prize)
2013: Jan Mikulka, Self-Portrait
The Seven Investment Management “Conversations” Prize
2015: John Wonnacott RP, Ian and Lois, The White Slip
The Smallwood Architects Prize for Contextual Portraiture
2015: Tom Hughes, Living Room with Lamps
2016: Lyn Gray, Stephen with Bill
2017: David Cobley RP NEAC, Made to Measure
2018: Michael Taylor RP, Alana - Figure with Box
2019: David Caldwell RP, Joe with Tattoos
2020: Steven Wood, Sandancer
2021: Sandra Kuck, Portrait Through a Prism
2022: Catherine Creaney, Care
2023: Martyn Harris, Paul's Emporium
The William Lock Portrait Prize
2021: Frances Bell RP, Self Portrait
2022: Tania Rivilis, Kupka's Dog
2023: Saied Dai RP NEAC, Charlotte