Charlie Schaffer wins 2019 BP portrait award
by Lanre Bakare from Environment | The Guardian on (#4GWW1)
Award comes amid criticism of BP's funding and sponsorship of National Portrait Gallery
A portrait of an English literature student posing in a fake fur coat has won one of the UK's most prestigious art prizes, which has been overshadowed by criticism of the oil company BP's sponsorship of the award.
The Brighton-based artist Charlie Schaffer was announced as the winner of the 2019 BP portrait award, with the judges saying the composition had a strong sense of a living presence and managed to be traditional and contemporary at the same time.
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