Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is an annual Australian portrait prize founded by Doug Moran in 1988, the year of Australia's Bicentenary. It is the richest portrait prize in the world with A$150,000 awarded to the winner. The prize is acquisitive; "the winning portrait immediately becomes the property of the Moran Arts Foundation, to be exhibited permanently as part of the Moran Arts Foundation Collection".
Peter Wegner (left) accepting the Prize in 2006. Right: Doug Moran
Leslie Rice, 2007 & 2012 Winner
Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford, is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford.
Hannaford painting a landscape near Adelaide in 2011
1998: Sir Donald Bradman in the Creswell Gardens
2012: Simpson and his donkey in the Angas Gardens
2013: ATSI War Memorial at Torrens Parade Ground