Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019 | Mall Galleries

10am to 5pm

Open until 7pm on Tuesday 14 and 21 May

9 May 2019 to 24 May 2019

Main Gallery, North Galleries and Threadneedle Space

Admission £4, Free to Friends of Mall Galleries and under 18s

There is always so much to enjoy in this exhibition, from the faces depicted in the portraits, both famous and unfamiliar, to the wide variety of high-quality paintings. It is a celebration of the very best in contemporary portraiture nationally and internationally.

Unlike other portrait exhibitions, it is rigorously selected by professional portrait painters who themselves have been elected by their peers to the Society. It is one of the world’s most extensive contemporary portrait exhibitions forming a showcase of some 200 works.

The exhibition catalogue is available to buy online now

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Selected Works

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Brian Gay

Alastair Adams PPRP

Oil, 110 x 90 cm, NFS

Nick Frost, Actor, Screenwriter, Producer and Author

Alastair Adams PPRP

Oil, 103 x 84 cm, NFS

Sir Simon Wessely, Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Alastair Adams PPRP

Oil, 110 x 90 cm, NFS

Vanessa

Maggie Avison

Graphite, 44 x 36 cm, NFS

Autumn Rains

BingYang Bai

Oil, 176 x 106 cm, NFS

Awakening

Elena Vladimir Baranoff

Egg tempera, 42 x 37 cm, NFS

California

Helen Bartholomew

Oil, 45 x 45 cm, £600

Cousins

Masha Baur

Oil stick, 91 x 74 cm, £1,200

Sailor

Caroline Bays PS

Oil, 50 x 44 cm, £1,400

Mr Moody Junior

Stewart Beckett

Oil, 76 x 61 cm, £850

Portrait of the Postman

Angela Bell

Oil, 20 x 15 cm, £650

Hugh

Frances Bell RP

Oil, 40 x 45 cm, £3,800

The Conversation

Frances Bell RP

Oil, 116 x 115 cm, £10,800

Walter

Frances Bell RP

Oil, 96 x 106 cm, NFS

Clifford, Outreach Worker, Tottenham

Tim Benson PROI NEAC RP

Oil, 104 x 76 cm, NFS

Man Looking Down 2

Tim Benson PROI NEAC RP

Oil, 32 x 27 cm, NFS

Jude

Rachel Birkett

Acrylic, 50 x 35 cm, NFS

Edward

Jane Bond RP NEAC

Charcoal, 89 x 69 cm, POA

Jevan

Jane Bond RP NEAC

Charcoal, 89 x 76 cm, POA

The Music of the Night

Anastasia Borodina

Oil, 170 x 80 cm, SOLD

Paul

Jason Bowyer PS PPNEAC RP

Oil, 47 x 50 cm, SOLD

Rat Scabies

Jason Bowyer PS PPNEAC RP

Oil, 204 x 102 cm, £7,800

Rat Scabies

Jason Bowyer PS PPNEAC RP

Oil, 47 x 50 cm, £1,750

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

Paul Brason RP

Oil, 172 x 120 cm, NFS

Sir Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick

Paul Brason RP

Oil, 142 x 111 cm, NFS

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