Royal Society of British Artists | Prize Winners
Below is a list of the artists who have won prizes at the annual exhibitions of the Royal Society of British Artists since 2013.
We would like to thank the individuals and companies who so generously award these prizes.
To submit your work to future open exhibitions and be in with a chance of winning a prize, find out more about our Call for Entries here.
If you are interested in sponsoring a prize at Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists, please contact Alistair Redgrift (Head of FBA Exhibitions) at exhibitions@mallgalleries.com
Alfred Daniels Personal Favourites Awards
2013: Michael Collins, Waiting for the Bride; Mike Clay, Ship of Fools; Anna Lever RBA, Stargazers I.
2014: Meg Dutton, Mosques; Roo Sangster-Bullers, The Funeral; Nicola Slattery, A House For Me; David Brammeld, Empty Corner Shop – Harveys; Carole Hubble RBA, The Chinese Bowl; Jill Leman RBA, Favourite Things.
2015: Martyn Baldwin RBA; Meg Dutton RBA; Arthur Lockwood RBA; Martin Leman RBA; Anna Lever RBA; Barbara Richardson RBA.
2016: Stuart Smith, Marche Aux Poissons; Alan Lambirth RBA, The Yellow Kitchen; Stefan Nenov, Shopping Rush; Renee Spierdijk, Girls and Dolls; Claire Edge, Through the Trees; Susan Bower RBA ROI, Mr Cooper Tibbles.
2017: Jon Pryke RBA, Lights in Mist, Blackheath; Stuart Smith, Don' Rock the Boat; Bridget Moore RBA NEAC, Girl on the Wire; Alex Callaway, The Old Boat; Martyn Baldwin RBA, Bull's Head; Ronald Morgan RBA ROI, The Thames at Putney.
The Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award
2018: Robert Truscott, Operation Gericht
2019: Bernadett Timko, Study of Max
2023: Marc Bodie, Highlights and Lowlifes
The Artist Magazine Award
2013: Rowan Crew RBA, Blooming Green
2014: Carole Griffin, Hanging Mirror
2015: Andrew Marr Hon. RBA
2016: Nicola Slattery RBA
2017: Anthony Yates RBA
2018: Sarah Butterfield, Cakes for Tea
2019: Annie Boisseau RBA
2020: John Martin RBA, Chinese Still Life
2021: Meg Dutton VPRBA, Inside the Glasshouse
2022: Mick Davies PRBA, The Crowd that Turns in Circles
2023: Lewis Hazelwood-Horner RBA, Pineapple
The Arts Society Star Student Award (formerly The John Ingram Memorial Prize for a Young Artist)
2013: Connie Latham, Mrs Clarke; Josephine Lohoar Self, Sirens.
2014: Flora Buchanan, Gran
2016: Rose Miller, Blue Bowl
2017: Katie Denham, Self-portrait
2018: Isabella Crouch, The Three Lydias
2019: Meg Burridge, Terrace Sunlight
2021: Charlotte Crosby, Grandad
2023: Imogen Hare, Hands in Honey
Contemporary Arts Trust Award (formerly The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award)
2013: Michael de Bono, Insight
2014: Jenny Smith, Mudchute Farm / The Laundry, Dumfries
2015: Lizet Dingemans, Squid; Daisy Cox, Self-Portrait
2017: Gopal Sharma, Untitled I; Jane McNulty, Self-portrait
The Davison Award for Oil Painting
2013: John McCombs RBA ROI, A Bleak Midwinter Day, Delph
2014: Robert E. Wells RBA, Sheep on a Hill
2015: Olwyn Bowey Hon. RBA, Fallen Apple Tree
2016: Barbara Richardson RBA, Still Life with Hammershoi
2017: Robert E. Wells RBA, 2 Children, One Deckchair
2018: Stuart Howitt, Pandering to the Camera
2019: Henry Jabbour, Gaze Not into my Eyes
2020: Michael Riddle, Lucy
The de Laszlo Foundation Prize (formerly The de Laszlo Award for Classical Draughtsmanship)
2013: Maria Mari Murga, Men At Your Feet
2015: Tatyana Kulida Shelley, Weightless
2016: Paulina Pluta, Reclining Nude
2017: Anna Rubincam, Blindfold
2018: Caroline Pool, Here I Am : Howard
2019: Yan Fu, Running Whippet
2020: Charles Pickard, Chiara
2021: Emily Gillbanks, Three Things
2022: Amit Vadher, The Cloth of Pride
2023: Imogen Hare, Hands in Honey
The de Laszlo Medal
2014: Rowan Crew RBA
2015: Nicholas Verrall RBA ROI
The Dry Red Press Award
2015: Jacqueline Taber Hon. RBA, Christopher’s Tomatoes
2016: Carole Griffin RBA, Narcissism
2017: Nicola Slattery RBA, Songbirds
2018: Barbara Jackson, Make Way
2019: Holly Gallant, Bobby
2020: Bess Harding, Stolen Stem X
2021: Margaret Foreman, Seaside Festival Tulips
2022: Martyn Baldwin RBA, Little Donna
2023: Henry Jabbour RBA PS, A Still Moment
The Edward Wesson Award for Watercolour Painting
2013: Nick Tidnam RBA, Harbour
2014: Annie Williams RBA, Still Life with a Moroccan Rug
2015: Mollie Andrews, Glass Eyes
2016: Florence Houston
2017: Annie Williams RBA, Present from A.J.
Frinton Frames Award
2013: Peter Brown Hon. RBA NEAC PS ROI RP, Midday’s Sun, Belmont, Bath
2014: Jeremy Galton RBA, Eggs
2015: John Martin RBA, Breakfast Table
2016: Robert E. Wells RBA, The Swimming Lesson
2017: Steven Outram RBA, Waiting for You
2018: Benjamin Hope, St Paul's from Cannon Street, Afternoon
2019: David Sawyer RBA, Campanile Sant'Ignazio all'Olivella, Palermo
2020: Nicholas Verrall RBA ROI, San Biagio Evening Light
2021: Paula Mitchell, Solent Sparkle
2022: Michael Grey-Jones RBA, Lunch on the Pier below Tate Modern
2023: Sarah Spackman RBA ROI, Heatwave Allotment Plums
The Geoffrey Vivis Memorial Award
2013: George Devlin RBA ROI, Seine Moorings, Port St Nicholas
2014: Lois Sander, London Archway
2015: Tim Galton, The Green Bridge of Wales, Pembrokeshire
2016: Rebecca Nipps, Charlie
2017: Charlie Pike, Self-portrait
2018: Jasmyn Fraser, Golden Age
2019: Owain Hunt, The Painter's Dog Resting
2020: Will Taylor RBA, Waterloo Sands
2021: Joseph Dupre, A Miracle Called Horace
2022: Catherine Allison, Pug
2023: Deni Mansfield, Art Nouveau Vase with Wild Flowers
The Gordon Hulson Memorial Prize
2013: David Brammeld, Abandoned Factory – Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
2014: Tim Goffe, Closing Petrol Station
2015: Robert Floyd, Self Portrait Facing Artist’s Block
2016: Lucy Townsend, Contemplation
2017: Andrew Hitchcock, A Picture of Stillness
2018: Max Mansbridge-West, Self Portrait
2019: Sarah Spackman, The Pear Between
2020: Daisy Sims-Hilditch, Studio Contre-Jour
2021: Paula Mitchell, Solent Sparkle
2022: Shaun Duke, Liz in White Shirt
2023: Ann Dangerfield, Hillside Village
Hahnemuhle Fine Art UK Award
2015: Melvyn Petterson RBA NEAC, Clouds and Shadows
2016: Meg Dutton, Secret Garden
2017: Brian George RBA, Consumer Paradise, Eagle Centre, Derby
2018: Jeremy Galton RBA, Michaelmas Daisies II
2019: Brett Hudson, Dark Lines
2020: Meg Dutton VPRBA, Sunset Mosques
2021: Samuel Owusu Achiaw, Citrus in Manibus
2022: Sian Tillot, In Bloom at Kew
2023: Chloe Barnes, Bike Ride
The John Lynn Commemorative Award for a Young Artist
2021: Owain Hunt, Man in Red Chair
2022: Zuzanna Salamon, I Will Close My Eyes And Admit That This Is The End
2023: Lewis Hazelwood-Horner RBA, The Stanley Arms
The LARA Prize for a Young Artist
2018: Jessica Debba
2019: Bethany Whell, Window Light
The Marianne von Werther Memorial Award (The Rome Scholarship)
2014: Tom Greenwood
2015: Meg Buick
2016: Paulina Pluta
2017: Natalia Glinoer
2018: Teresa Hunyadi
2019: Tara Versey
The Michael Harding Awards
2014: Christopher Hall RBA, The Old Bell, Warminster; Margaret Thomas RBA NEAC, Dying Daisies.
2015: Charles Hardaker RBA NEAC, Reverie; Martin Leman RBA, Dungeness.
2016: Rowan Crew RBA, Morning Light; Sopio Chikhikvadze, Swimmer.
2017: Henry Jabbour, Peeling 2; Malcolm Ashman RBA ROI, Ghost.
2018: Renee Spierdijk, Striped Dress; Lee Madgwick RBA, Merry-Go-Canter
2019: Alan Lambirth RBA, Afternoon Tea; Benjamin Hope NEAC PS ARSMA, Southwark Bridge Road
2020: Chris Aggs RBA, Apple Blossom; Anthony Yates RBA, Succulent Night
2021: Steven Outram RBA, Fire and Dust; Paul Slater, Sons of Borias
2022: Richard Cook RBA, South Downs Landscape, Sun & Shadows
2023: Natalia Glinoer, In the Artist's Studio; Steven Outram RBA, First and Last
Nathan David Award for Sculpture
2018: Teresa Hunyadi, My Pleasure
2019: Clive Duncan RBA, Vespasian's Game 2
2020: David Sprakes RBA, Tidal Stone
2021: Lesley Hilling, The Soldier
2022: Carolyn Simpson ARSMA, Rooster at Rest
2023: Katarina Crawford, Exhale
The Patron's Prize
2018: Cheryl Culver RBA PPPS, Jumble of Rocks
2019: Gareth Hugh Davies, The Bright Field
2020: Jon Pryke RBA, Wheeling Moon
2021: Stephen Price, Contemplation; Callum Stannard RBA, Artist's Mother
The Peter Kelly Commemorative Prize
2020: Stuart Robertson, Notre Dame de Paris
2021: Mark McLaughlin, Flood and Ice, Belair Park, West Dulwich
2022: Benjamin Hope NEAC PS ROI RP RSMA, Fog, Montpelier Vale and All Saints
2023: Ben Hughes, George Street, Bath
RBA President's Star Student Award
2021: Coco Huang, Deadly Sins
The Ronald Morgan Memorial Award
2020: Pauline Hazelwood, Sweeping Steps
2021: Roger Cromwell, Storm Passing
2022: Mark McLaughlin, Dulwich
2023: Sarah Harrold, Octavia
The Stuart Southall Print Prize
2018: Kirsten van Schreven, Airframe IV
2019: Martin Langford, Puppet Master
2020: Richenda Court, Behind the Human Ocean
2021: Will Taylor RBA, Blackfriars
2022: Victoria Garland, Night, Trinity Churchyard
2023: Martin Langford, And so on...
The Surgeons' Prize
2018: Ruth Murray, Fish Market, 100 Smirrells Road
2019: Amber Li, The River
2020: Tara Versey, Another Late Afternoon by the Old Wall
2021: Andrii Kateryniuk, Sunset in the Cypress Grove
2022: Rebecca Holton, Working on a Sunday
2023: Sophie Cleave, Blurred Reality
The Whistler Award
2018: Hilary Frew RBA
2019: Ronald Morgan Sen RBA Hon Sen ROI
2020: Nick Tidnam PPRBA NEAC
2021: Annie Williams RBA
2022: Cheryl Culver RBA PPPS
The Winsor & Newton Painting Award
2014: Holly Brodie, Picking Up The Pieces
2015: William Selby RBA NEAC ROI, Rose & Hipps
2016: Charles Hardaker RBA NEAC, Still Life – White & Grey
2017: Annie Boisseau, Landscape, Morning Light
2018: Timothy Gatenby, Dark Lanes
2019: Henry Jabbour, Out of my Mouth to Heaven
2020: Mark Fennell, The Diagnosis
2021: Brian Hodgson, Lockdown 3
2022: Steve Evans Hon RBA PRBSA, Shaft
2023: Simon Taylor, White Shelter, Llandudno