| National Portrait Gallery announces call for entries for the BP Portrait Award 2012 |
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WASHINGTON, D.C.- The National Portrait Gallery announces the Call for Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2012, the world’s most prestigious open competition for portrait painting. The Portrait Award, now in its thirty-third year at the National Portrait Gallery and twenty-third year of sponsorship by BP, is an annual event aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop portraiture in their work. The BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition will run at the National Portrait Gallery from 21 June to 23 September 2012. The BP Portrait Award is open to all artists over the age of 18, and provides an important platform for portrait painters. In 2011, 2,372 artists submitted their work and the exhibition, featured 55 paintings. Seen by over 340,000 people, the BP Portrait Award 2011 had the highest ever visitor figures for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. A cash award of £25,000 will go to the First Prize winner read full article
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