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Daphne Todd OBE PPRP NEAC Biography
Although Daphne Todd is best known for her portraits, having become the first woman President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, her work also covers a wide range of genres, including still life and landscapes inspired by the beautiful Kent and Sussex borders where she lives. Always working directly in front of her subject she misses nothing, and the eminent gathering of her past sitters—including HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Dame Janet Baker, Christopher Ondaatje and Spike Milligan—have found it difficult to hide from her analytical gaze. Her sitters tell of her careful placement of brushstrokes. Fine and deliberate her brush glides deftly across the fine birch panels on which she customarily paints, but the beautiful control of the surface often belies other tensions in the work. Through her teaching at Heatherley’s Art School and her Presidency of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Daphne Todd has been an important force in promoting representational art in Britain.
Daphne Todd has recently been the subject of an impressive new monograph by Jenny Pery, Daphne Todd: Paint and Principle, published by Studio Publications, £35.
She is represented exclusively by Messum’s.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Messum’s Gallery, Cork St
2008 Messum's Gallery, Cork St
2004 Messum's
2001 Messum's
1989 Morley Gallery (Retrospective)
Numerous mixed open exhibitions including:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters;
the New English Art Club;
the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
(work purchased ”for the Nation” through the Chantrey bequest, 1972);
the BP Award; and invited works for the Slade Centenary;
The Presidents’ Exhibition;
The Discerning Eye; etc
2010 FIRST PRIZE, BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London ( international send-in)
2001 FIRST PRIZE, Ondaatje Award for Portraiture and GOLD MEDAL ,Royal Society of Portrait Painters
1985 GLC Prize, Spirit if London, Royal Festival Hall
1984 Special Commendation, John Player Portrait Award
1984 FIRST PRIZE, Hunting Group National Art Award
1983 SECOND PRIZE John Player Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Freedom of the City of London,1997: Hon Doctorate of the Arts, De Montfort University, 1998;Hon Liveryman, Worshipful Co. of Painter- Stainers, 2004; OBE for Services to the Arts, 2002.
Jenny Pery, Daphne Todd: Paint and Principle, Marlow: Studio Publications, 2004
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Daphne Todd with the Prince of Wales
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
18th November 2011
The death of Lucian Freud was not the end of portrait painting
The Guardian
1st August 2011
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
Islington Tribune
19th May 2011
Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition features record entries
Guardian Newpaper
4th May 2011
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Famous faces at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
The Independent
4th May 2011
Paintings Past and Present from the New English Art Club
Studio Publications 2010
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Daphne Todd - Paint and Principle
Studio Publications 2008
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New Work, 2008
Studio Publications 2008
Daphne Todd elsewhere on the web