Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is Australia's most prestigious portraiture award.
Background
The Archibald Prize was produced in 1921 in the bequest of Jules Francois Archibald (d. 1919), the founding editor birkenstock shoes in the Australian political magazine The Bulletin. Archibald thought that it absolutely was important for a nation as young as Australia to have a solid perception of national identification, and he decided to motivate this via a portraiture prize. The prize was to