Click on the images below to see the previous twenty six winners of the BP Portrait Award.
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Imara in her Winter Coat
by Charlie Schaffer
An Angel At My Table
by Miriam Escofet
Breech!
by Benjamin Sullivan
Girl in a Liberty Dress
by Clara Drummond
Annabelle and Guy
by Matan Ben Cnaan
Man with a Plaid Blanket
by Thomas Ganter
Distracted
by Wim Heldens
Last Portrait of Mother
by Daphne Todd
Changeling 2
by Peter Monkman
Michael Simpson
by Paul Emsley
Giulietta Coates
by Dean Marsh
The Miracle
by Stephen Shankland
Untitled
by Charlotte Harris
Antony
by Catherine Goodman
Two Women in White
by Victoria Russell
The Six Presidents of the British Academy
by Stuart Pearson Wright
Double Single
by Clive Smith
Penelope watching TV
by James Lloyd
Self-portrait
by James Hague
Krishenda
by Ishbel Myerscough
Portrait of an Artist’s Model
by Peter Edwards
Two Figures Lying in a Shallow Stream
by Philip Harris
Her Majesty’s Pleasure
by Lucy Willis
Three Seated Figures
by Justin Mortimer
Self-portrait
by Annabel Cullen