Daphne Todd OBE (born 27 March 1947) is an English artist who was the first female President of the

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from 1994–2000, and who won the

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2010 with a painting of her 100-year-old mother's corpse.Painting of artist's mother aged 100 wins BP Portrait Award
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'' 23-Jun-2010 She attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Girls in Canterbury, Kent. She studied at the

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from 1964–71. In 1983 she won 2nd prize in what is now the BP Portrait Award, and in 1984 a "special commendation". She was elected a member of the

in 1985. She became a Freeman of the City of London in 1997 and received an Hon. Doctorate of Arts from

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in 1998. In 1985 she won the

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for oil painting with her picture "''Four Spanish Chairs''". In 2001 she won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the Gold Medal, and was appointed an OBE.

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1947 births Living people 20th-century English painters 21st-century English painters 20th-century English women artists 21st-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art BP Portrait Award winners English women painters Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{England-painter-stub Society of Women Artists members