The always stimulating BP Portrait Award, now in its eighteenth year of sponsorship by BP, returns to Edinburgh this winter and presents some of the very best examples of contemporary portrait painting.
This year's jury made a selection of sixty from a record entry of 1,870 original works, submitted from around the world, and awarded the First Prize of £25,000 to Paul Emsley's dramatic close-up of fellow artist, Michael Simpson.
Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London.
