Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2016

5 May 2016 to 20 May 2016

10am to 5pm

Main Gallery, North Galleries, The Threadneedle Space

Admission £3, £2.50 concessions (50% off to National Art Pass holders. Free to Friends of Mall Galleries and under 18s)

Catalogue £5

This high profile showcase featuring over 200 of the most outstanding and innovative portraits by artists working in Great Britain and around the world today, includes new work by member artists, as well as paintings selected from open submission.

The exhibition presents subjects ranging from informal sketches of friends and family to large-scale commissions and well-known faces.

The winners of a number of portrait prizes will also be on show, including the prestigious £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture for the most distinguished portrait in the exhibition, the £3,000 de Laszlo Foundation Award for an artist 35 and under and The Prince of Wales's Award for Portrait Drawing, worth £2,000.

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Exhibiting artists

Alastair Adams PPRP

Malcolm Ashman RBA RWA

Caroline Bays PS

Frances Bell RP

Jane Bond RP NEAC

Paul Brason RP

Keith Breeden RP

Peter Brown PNEAC RP ROI PS Hon RBA

David Caldwell RP

Tom Coates Hon PS PPNEAC PPRBA RP

David Cobley RP NEAC

Anthony Connolly RP

Ian Cryer FROI

Saied Dai RP NEAC

Simon Davis VPRP

Miriam Escofet RP

Anthony Eyton PS RA ROI

Andrew Festing PPRP

Richard Foster PRP

David Graham RP

Valeriy Gridnev PS ROI RP

Robin-Lee Hall PPRP

Emma Hopkins RP

Julie Jackson NEAC

Andrew James RP NEAC

Peter Kuhfeld RP NEAC

Bob Last PS

June Mendoza AO OBE RP ROI

David Miller Sen RBA

Anthony Morris RP NEAC

David R Newens

Shanti Panchal Hon RBA

Anastasia Pollard RP

Mark Roscoe RP

Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC RBA

Charlotte Sorapure NEAC

Sarah Spencer VPNEAC

Jeff Stultiens RP

Benjamin Sullivan RP NEAC

Michael Taylor RP

Daphne Todd OBE PPRP HRNEAC

Jason Walker RP

John Walton Hon RP

Emma Wesley RP

Toby Wiggins RP

Antony Williams NEAC PS RP

John Wonnacott CBE Hon. RP

Neale Worley NEAC RP

Robbie Wraith RP

A R Allen

Benjamin Andreas

Aldo Balding

Liz Balkwill

Jack Banister

Geoffrey Beasley

Angela Bell

Sarah Bell

Tim Benson

Simone Bingemer

Fakhri Bismanto Bohang

The Late William Bowyer RA Hon. RP Hon. NEAC RWS (1927 - 2015)

Martin Brooks

Vincent Brown

John Burke

Henry Byrne

Coyan Cardenas

Sopio Chkhikvadze

Sarah Cosby

Belinda Crozier

Merrie Curtiss-Fuller

Lantian D.

Helen Davison

Andrew Dixon

David Eyres

Lucas Garcia

Angela Gordon-Webb

Henrietta Graham

Lucas Garcia

Angela Gordon-Webb

Henrietta Graham

Carl Grauer

Lyn Gray

Paul Harber

Victor Harris

Tom Harrison

Julia Hawkins

Neil Helyard

Richard James

Hero Johnson

Katie Jones

Stephanie Kullberg

Kathryn Kynoch

Jason Line

David Maiden

Kate Marsden

Francis Martin

Ekaterina Matsievskaya

Ewan McClure

Kenny McKendry

Jan Mikulka

Julian Mitchell

Sarah Jane Moon

Keith Morton

Robin L Muller

Hannah Murray

Ruth Murray

Nashunmenghe

Liam O'Connor

Emma Pathare

Sergei Pavlenko

Isobel Peachey

Helen Perkins

Robin Perko

Allan Ramsay

Matt Alexander Ray

Alex Rooney

Tim Rose

Charlie Schaffer

Barbara Seale

Caroline Seilern-Aspang

Michael Travis Seymour

Lee Simmonds

Victoria Smith

Jonathan Sundaram

Chinghuang Tai

Michael Taylor

David Thomas

Radoslav Topalov

Alex Tzarvaras

John Gregor Walker

Simon Watkins

Isabella Watling

Colin Watson

Flora Watson

Marika Wenman

Graeme Wilcox

Paula Wilson

Anna Wimbledon

Rodger Worth

Paul Wuensche

Michael Zavialov

Selected Works

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John

Oil

150 x 120 cm

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Professor Walter S. Nimmo, CBE, MD, FRCP, FRSE

Oil

92 x 71 cm

Sir Tim Hunt, PhD, FRS. Officer, Légion d'Honneur (Commissioned by The Company of Biologists Limited)

Pencil

55 x 45 cm

The Rt. Hon. Lord Bragg, FRS, FBA, FRSL, DLitt

Oil

51 x 40 cm

Charles Bush, Headmaster of Oundle School 2005-2015

Alastair Adams PPRP

Oil

100 x 100 cm

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John Ashford

Alastair Adams PPRP

Oil

80 x 65 cm

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The Rt. Hon. The Lord Skidelsky

Alastair Adams PPRP

Oil

140 x 81 cm

Rachel

Matt Alexander Ray

Oil

30 x 40 cm

Mr Casey

Malcolm Ashman RBA RWA

Oil and metal leaf

63 x 48 cm

Bared and Brushed

Aldo Balding

Oil

92 x 65 cm

Born to be Wild

Liz Balkwill PS

Oil

84 x 70 cm

Ed Cubitt

Jack Banister

Oil

90 x 80 cm

Antony in Blue Shirt

Caroline Bays PS

Oil

105 x 90 cm

Portrait of Will Self

Geoffrey Beasley

Oil

67 x 57 cm

Loser at the Lodge

Angela Bell

Oil

50 x 50 cm

Things are Looking Up?

Sarah Bell

Etching with aquatint (edition of 10)

53 x 43cm

Flora

Frances Bell RP

Oil

66 x 41 cm

Georgie

Frances Bell RP

Oil

76 x 66 cm

Rob, Flora and Hugh in the Studio

Frances Bell RP

Oil

81 x 102 cm

Abdulai, Ebola Survivor, Security Officer on the Isolation Unit, Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Tim Benson PROI NEAC RP

Oil

30 x 25 cm

Severin

Simone Bingemer

Pastel

60 x 49 cm

Yolanda

Fakhri Bismanto Bohang

Oil

70 x 50 cm

Major Claud Rebbeck, Last Secretary of The Gloucestershire Regiment

Jane Bond RP NEAC

Oil

117 x 91.5 cm

Bob Willis: Vanquishing the Aussies

William Bowyer

Oil

81 x 61 cm

Nicholas Collins: Listening

Jason Bowyer PS PPNEAC RP

Charcoal

71 x 71 cm

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