We are pleased to announce the repeated success of current and former students at the annual exhibitions of the Herbert Smith Freehills (formerly BP) Portrait Award, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Society of Women Artists. The following portraits have been painted entirely from life, to the scale of life, using the sight‑size method.
The Herbert Smith Freehills (formerly BP) Portrait Award returned to the National Portrait Gallery in London this year. Alumna and Instructor Isabella Watling was awarded second prize for her portrait of ‘Zizi’ wearing an original dress by Simone Rocha. Painted entirely from life at her private studio on Talgarth Road in London, the painting is sight-size and to the scale of life.
Student Gabriel J. Lewis was also selected for the show with his portrait of ‘Shannice’ painted whilst studying with us in Florence.
This year’s RP show at The Mall Galleries featured a number of succesful submissions from alumni, faculty and current students. Various prizes were awarded to alumni including Frances Bell RP who received the new William Lock Portrait Prize “for the most timeless portrait with a real feeling for paint and its aesthetic potential” and Rupert Alexander who received The Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award for Classically Inspired Portraiture.
Frances Bell RP – Self Portrait
Rupet Alexander – Jack Hudleston
Isabella Watling – Loredanna
Emily Rogers – Eoghan
Daisy Denning – Josephine
Isabella Watling – Billy
Daisy Sims-Hilditch – Alessandra
Frances Bell – Self-Portrait Triptych
Isabella Watling – Gina and Cristiano
Patrik Graham – Engles
Henrietta Abel Smith – Dodger
Jamie Routley – Inner Dialogue
George William Clark – Nino
Jamie Routley – Tony Lewis
Frances Bell – The Postman
Isabella Watling – The Importance of Being Glenn
Alumna and Instructor Isabella Watling interviewed in Monolith:
Monolith – ‘Interview with Isabella Watling’ – 16.01.2023′
Charles H.Cecil chooses his favourite painting for Country Life:
Country Life – ‘My favourite painting: Charles H. Cecil’ – 20.04.2016
An article in Country Life featuring four Charles H. Cecil Studios alumni:
Country Life – ‘Learn to paint like a master’ – Michael Hall 24.05.2014
Articles in The Artist by graduate Frances Bell:
The Artist – ‘Focus and Rhythm – Oil Paintings by Frances Bell’ – Frances Bell 12.12.2013