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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. In 1989 she was awarded a solo Retrospective Exhibition
at the Morley Gallery, London.
Major prizes include:-
- 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.
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
(Chantry 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 Alice Mueller, DCB; The Lord Pennock;
Baron Klingspor; Lord Adrian, while 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;
Marilyn Strathem, Mistress of Girlon and Lord Ashbourton.
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