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Daphne Todd, president of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
from 1994 - 2000, was the first female to hold this office
since the Society was founded in 1891. Past presidents include
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, Sir William Orpen, Sir John Laverly
and Augustus John.
Born in Yorkshire in 1947, Daphne Todd studied at the Slade
School of Fine Art, University College London, from 1964 -
1971, under the direction of Sir William Coldstream. While
there she was awarded the British Institute Award for Figurative
Painting, the Tonks Drawing Prize and the David Murray intercollegiate
award for landscape painting.
After a period exhibiting widely in Britain in group shows,
including the Royal Academy (from 1969) and teaching part-time
at the Byam Shaw and the Heatherly Schools of Art in London,
Daphne Todd spent two years painting landscapes in Spain.
In 1984 she was elected a member of the New English Art Club
and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in
1985.From 1994 – 2000 she served as a Trustee of the Federation of British Artists and remains a Trustee of the Heatherly School of Fine Art, Chelsea. In 1997 she was awarded Freedom of the City of London; 1998 received Hon. Doctorate of Arts, De Montford University; 2001 awarded the O.B.E.
Major prizes include:-
- WINNER, 2010 BP portrait award
- WINNER, 2001 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the Gold
Medal
- FIRST
PRIZE, 1984 Hunting Group National Art Prize. (Now the Hunting/Observer
Award)
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SECOND PRIZE, 1983, John Player Portrait Award at the National
Portrait Gallery. (Now the BP Portrait Award)
- SPECIAL
COMMENDATION, 1984, John Player Portrait Award.
- G.L.C.
PRIZE, 1985, Royal Festival Hall, London.
Solo Exhibitions: -
- 1989 Morley Gallery (Retrospective)
- 2001 Messum’s Art Gallery, Cork St, London.
- 2004 Messum’s Art Gallery, Cork St, London
- 2008 Messum’s Art Gallery, Cork St, London
- 2009 Messum’s Art Gallery, Cork St, London
Portraits by Daphne Todd are included in the collections
of the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Science Museum;
The Royal Holloway Museum and Art Gallery; The Royal Academy
(Chantrey Bequest); Oxford University; Cambridge University
and the University of Wales; beside numerous other educational
establishments, institutions and private collections in Britain
and Europe.
Notable sitters include HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
KG; the opera singer Dame Janet Baker, DBE; the Very Reverend
John Eastaugh, Lord Bishop of Hereford; the former "Goon"
Spike Milligan, CBE; Dame Anne Mueller, DCB; The Lord Pennock;
Baron Klingspor; Lord Adrian, Vice- Chancellor of Cambridge
University; former chairman of British Aerospace, Sir Austin
Pearce; One of the early developers of penicillin, Sir Edward
Abraham; Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover; Lord Sharman;
Dame Marilyn Strathem, Mistress of Girton and Lord Ashbourton; Sir Christopher Oudaatje; Lord Deedes; Davis Lister, Arts Editor of the Independent; Lord and Lady Cebbit; Lord Armstory of Leominster; Sir Tom Stoppard.
Publications:- ‘Paint and Principle: The Life and Work of Daphne Todd’ by Jenny Pery. Published 2008, available from the Mall Galleries.
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