{"product_id":"9781855144484","title":"500 Portraits: BP Portrait Award","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis beautifully produced compendium features 500 paintings from many of the best figurative artists active over the last twenty-one years. Reflecting the diverse methods of contemporary portrait practice, the book includes a dazzling array of styles, from immaculate photorealism to intense expressionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe BP Portrait Award is one of Britain’s most prestigious art prizes, and each year nearly 300,000 people visit the exhibition based on the competition. It has acted as a springboard for many painters’ careers, notably the prize-winners who have been subsequently commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to paint an eminent sitter.\u003cbr\u003eThis book includes full-colour reproductions of many of those commissions – including paintings of Dame Helen Mirren, J.K. Rowling, Sir Michael Caine, Fiona Shaw, Sir Ian\u003cbr\u003eMcKellen, Sir Paul Smith and Dame Cicely Saunders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as these high-profile commissions, the book features an inspiring wealth of subjects: unflinching self-portraits, warm portrayals of children and babies,\u003cbr\u003econversation pieces, studies of people at home and at work – a rich and varied selection of hundreds of faces by some of the finest portrait painters of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Portrait Gallery Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032739004656,"sku":"9781855144484","price":37.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781855144484_p0.jpg?v=1763597958","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781855144484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}