Daphne Todd
OBE (born 27 March 1947) is an English artist who was the first female President of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1994–2000,
and who won the
BP Portrait Award 2010 with a painting of her 100-year-old mother's corpse.
[Painting of artist's mother aged 100 wins BP Portrait Award]
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She attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Girls in Canterbury, Kent.
She studied at the
Slade School of Fine Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
in London from 1964–71. In 1983, she won 2nd prize in what is now the BP Portrait Award, and in 1984 a "special commendation". She was elected a member of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1985. She became a Freeman of the City of London in 1997 and received an Hon. Doctorate of Arts from
De Montfort University
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in 1998.
In 1985, she won the
Hunting Art Prize for oil painting with her picture "''Four Spanish Chairs''".
In 2001, she won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the Gold Medal, and was appointed an OBE.
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In 2023, Todd faced controversy after claiming a local resident, who was part of a community support group she likened to the Mafia, was a token women.
]
Notes and references
1947 births
Living people
20th-century English painters
21st-century English painters
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
BP Portrait Award winners
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Society of Women Artists members
20th-century English women painters
21st-century English women painters
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