West Ealing artists' success in major national portrait exhibition
Graced by portraits of royalty, celebrities, academics, mothers, daughters, fathers and sons, the exhibition is a feature of the social calendar.
This year about half of the work will be by eminent Members of the Society and half by emerging artists selected through the open submission. Stella’s painting is of BBC R4 From our own correspondent presenter Kate Adie.
Stella Tooth with her portrait painting of Kate Adie at the RP show.
With some 200 portraits on show this is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of recent portraits in the country with a special section on self-portraiture.
This year’s exhibition will be on display at Mall Galleries near Trafalgar Square between 16 April to 1 May 2015
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters have many prizes and awards available to exhibitors, including the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the £3,000 de Laszlo Foundation Award.
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Listings
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, The Mall (near Trafalgar Square), London SW1
Open 16 April to 1 May 2015, 10am to 5pm. Open until 7pm on Tuesdays.
Closed all day Sunday 26 April.
Admission £3, Concessions £2.50 (Free to Friends of the Mall Galleries, Art Fund Members, and Under 18s).