Herbert Smith Freehills
Portrait Award 2024
Call for entries open
11 July - 27 October 2024
Free entry
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The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award makes a welcome return to the National Portrait Gallery for 2024. The prestigious competition showcases the very best in contemporary portrait painting and is open to everyone aged eighteen and over. Since its inception over 40 years ago, the competition has attracted over 40,000 entries from more than 100 countries and the exhibition has been seen by over 6 million people.
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Call for entries
Enter now for the chance to have your work on display in the National Portrait Gallery and win the top prize of £35,000.
Entries close 16 January 2024.
Download the full list of prizes and competition rules (PDF)
For all further enquiries please email us at [email protected].
Sponsor
Art has long been recognised for its power to connect and its ability to reflect insights from diverse perspectives. That means embracing differences and benefiting from the unique angles that others can bring to an individual's world view. It's an approach which matches the values we hold close and so we're delighted to continue – and enhance – our longstanding relationship with the National Portrait Gallery. Our hope is that the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award shines a light on outstanding new talent and enables a new generation of artists to emerge.
