Vote for your favourite in Bath's Holburne Museum Portrait Prize competition

Seventy-eight artists entered the 2012 Holburne Portrait Prize, which aims to find the south west’s best painter in the genre.

Some 43 of these have been selected to feature in the competition, with a display in the museum’s new Roper Gallery beginning on Saturday.

There is a strong showing from Bath artists, with Helen Elwes from Bathford, Karen Wallis of Newbridge, Leo Schrecker of Larkhall and Paul Brason of Beechen Cliff making the final reckoning.

The exhibition at the gallery will run until October 14, with the winner chosen by a panel of judges being announced on October 2.

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He or she will be given a £5,000 commission to paint a well-known figure from the region.

People visiting the exhibition can also take part in the People’s Prize section of the competition, using forms at the gallery or voting here in our This Is Bath poll on the side of the page.

So get voting for your favourite and see if you agree with the panel of experts when the winner is announced next month.

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Bath's Holburne Museum Portrait Prize

1. Sophie Ploeg, Roses		2. Dzemal Gugunava, Alison		3. R Scott Fraser, Craig
4. Karen Wallis, Bar at the Alma Tavern		6. Sophie Sharp, Jess		7. Sue Burns, After Birth
8. Paula Wilson, Reverend Neville Boundy and the Grain of Mustard Seed		9. David Chandler, Lindsay Clarke		10. Elizabeth A Adams, Kenneth Grieb ARIBA
11. Alexandra Becker, Zach & J		13. Lindy Alfrey, In at St James		14. James Budden, Paul Playing the Bloody Accordion
16. Harriet White, Wanderflower		17. Daniel Byrne, Where Eagles Dare		18. Georgia Cox, The Battle of the Seekers
19. Broose Dickinson, Skype Portrait of Darby and Remi		20. Philip Munoz, Girl in Blue Dress		22. Helen Elwes, Portrait of Barry
24. Helen Simmonds, Alice's Jumper		25. Nathan Ford, Alpha		29. Caroline Rudge, Fabrication
32. Charlotte Sorapure, Self Portrait		39. Celia Bennett, Django		41 James Scrase, John the Pirate
44. Kit Glaisyer, Engagement		46. Mary Mabbutt, Self Portrait		47. Toby Wiggins, St Georges Day Portrait, Choi Keum Yui
48. Katy Sullivan, Sequins and Dolls		50. Rosalie Stott, Self Portrait		53. Ian Price, The Patriarch
57. Leo Schrecker, Sifa		58. Anna Dougherty, Self Portrait with Ribera's Clubfooted Boy		61. Glenda Maynard, Manae
62. Anna Pinkster, Pat		65. Tom Eliot, Growing into the Portrait		67. Frank Harwood, Brian Walker
68. Malcolm Ashman, James Lambeth		70. Geoff Shillito, James		71. Ben Hughes, Every Cup Of Tea She Ever Had
73. John Puckey, Sir Richard Carwe-Pole		75. Nicholas Wood, I Come From Bath		76. Nicholas Chaundy, Bryn
		77. Paul Brason, Conversation II from 'Conversations with Will'

Larger images of the portrait prize contenders

Bath's Holburne Museum Portrait Prize