£30,000 BP Portrait Award 2016 - The Shortlist

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Three very impressive and very different paintings have been shortlisted for the £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2016. Each of them is guaranteed a prize. 

They are:

Girl in a Liberty Dress by Clara Drummond - a portrait of her friend and a fellow artist
Hugo by Benjamin Sullivan - a portrait of the poet Hugo Williams; 
Silence by Chinese artist Bo Wang - a portrait of his dying Grandmother.

Both

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