Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2016

10am to 5pm

5 May 2016 to 20 May 2016

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 ROI

Caroline Bays PS

Frances Bell

Jane Bond RP NEAC

Jason Bowyer PS PPNEAC RP

Paul Brason RP

Keith Breeden RP

Peter Brown Hon RBA NEAC PS ROI RP

David Caldwell RP

Tom Coates Hon PS PPNEAC PPRBA RP

David Cobley RP NEAC

Richard Combes ROI

Anthony Connolly RP

Ian Cryer PROI

Saied Dai RP NEAC

Simon Davis VPRP

Miriam Escofet

Anthony Eyton PS RA ROI

Andrew Festing PPRP

Richard Foster PRP

Joseph Galvin

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 OBE RP ROI

David Miller RBA Assoc RP

Anthony Morris RP NEAC

Nashunmenghe

David R Newens

Michael Noakes RP PPROI

Shanti Panchal Hon RBA

Anastasia Pollard RP

Mark Roscoe RP

Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC

Charlotte Sorapure NEAC

Sarah Spencer NEAC

Jeff Stultiens RP

Benjamin Sullivan RP NEAC

Michael Taylor RP

Bernadett Timko

Daphne Todd OBE PPRP NEAC

Jason Walker RP

John Walton 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

Anne Marie-Butlin

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

Ana Hobson

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

Sophie Ploeg

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

Charles Bush, Headmaster of Oundle School 2005-2015

Alastair Adams PPRP

NFS

John Ashford

Alastair Adams PPRP

NFS

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Skidelsky

Alastair Adams PPRP

NFS

Rachel

Matt Alexander Ray

SOLD

Mr Casey

Malcolm Ashman RBA ROI

£4,000

Bared and Brushed

Aldo Balding

£6,000

Born to be Wild

Liz Balkwill PS

NFS

Ed Cubitt

Jack Banister

NFS

Antony in Blue Shirt

Caroline Bays PS

£5,000

Portrait of Will Self

Geoffrey Beasley

£6,500

Flora

Frances Bell

NFS

Georgie

Frances Bell

NFS

Loser at the Lodge

Angela Bell

SOLD

Rob, Flora and Hugh in the Studio

Frances Bell

NFS

Things are Looking Up?

Sarah Bell

£180 (£120 unframed)

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

Tim Benson VPROI

£1,800

Severin

Simone Bingemer

NFS

Yolanda

Fakhri Bismanto Bohang

£2,000

Major Claud Rebbeck, Last Secretary of The Gloucestershire Regiment

Jane Bond RP NEAC

NFS

Bob Willis: Vanquishing the Aussies

William Bowyer

£7,500

Nicholas Collins: Listening

Jason Bowyer PS PPNEAC RP

NFS

Eighteen, Winter Light

Paul Brason RP

NFS

Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth, Chairman of Malvern College Council 2003-2015 (Sketch) (Courtesy of Malvern College)

Keith Breeden RP

NFS

Ian Ritchie, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2012-2015 (Courtesy of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)

Keith Breeden RP

NFS

The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Brown GBE, President of The Malvernian Society (Courtesy of Malvern College)

Keith Breeden RP

NFS

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