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The BP Portrait Award is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. It is the successor to the John Player Portrait Award. It's reputedly one of the most prestigious art competitions for contemporary art〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cent Magazine )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Portrait Gallery in London )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fine Art Connoisseur - The Best In Contemporary Portraiture At London's National Portrait Gallery )〕 and the most important portrait prize in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Royal Society of Portrait Painters )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BP and National Portrait Gallery )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Journal - Familial feel at this year's BP Portrait Award Exhibition )〕 The Daily Mail defined it as "the portraiture Oscars". ==History== British Petroleum took over sponsorship of the competition in 1989 from John Player & Sons, a tobacco company which had sponsored it from its inception in 1980, and has sponsored it since. The presence of both sponsors has triggered protests, with the group Art Not Oil (part of the international Rising Tide network) being responsible for most of those against BP. The exhibition opens in June each year and runs until September. First prize is typically £30,000. In the early years of the century, the prize went up from £5,000, and its catchment area was gradually extended from residents of the UK and is now unrestricted. In 1993, Tom Hallifax was used to advertise the awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Fineart )〕 In 2012 the competition received 2,187 entries from 74 countries (including 1,500 from the UK) of which 55 paintings were selected to be exhibited. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BP Portrait Award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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