Painting of iPod girl wins gallery popularity poll
A painting of a girl listening to her iPod has come top in a public poll of visitors to the National Portrait Gallery.
The portrait, by Czech artist Michal Ozibko, is called iDeath. It got more than 4,000 votes out of 25,980 cast by members of the public asked to nominate their favourite entry in this year’s 2010 BP Portrait Award.
Lyndsey Jameson, a teacher from Darlington, came second with 2,500 votes for her painting, Sentinel, which shows her younger brother, Declan, on the banks of the River Tees.