LONDON.- The winner of the BP Portrait
Award 2010
was announced at the National Portrait Gallery. In a record-breaking
year for
entries, the prestigious first prize was won by 63-year-old artist
Daphne Todd.
Her winning portrait, Last Portrait of Mother, is a devotional study of
her dead
mother. Daphne Todd wins £25,000 and a commission, at the National
Portrait
Gallery Trustees’ discretion, worth £4,000. The portrait can be seen at
the
National Portrait Gallery from Thursday 24 June when the BP Portrait
Award 2010
exhibition opens to the public.