LONDON, UK.- The top prize for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters' annual show, a £10,000 Ondaatje prize, went to John Wonnacott for his painting entitled Prof Bernard de Neuman, the Mathematician. The drawing prize went to artist Toby Wiggins. The under-25s section prize went to Emma Wesley and Jennifer Anderson got the 35-and-under award. The Duke of Kent will open the exhibition of this show at London's Mall Galleries on Thursday.

John Wonnacott, 64, was born in London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He now lives and works in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. The painting entitled Cleo by Jean-Paul Tibbles won the society's Changing Faces prize. This prize is given for "the portrait that is most outstanding in the way it communicates with the viewer". Among the works in the exhibition is a new portrait of Pope John Paul II by artist Michael Noakes.