Daphne Todd OBE (born 27 March 1947) is an English artist who was the first female President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1994–2000,[1] and who won the BP Portrait Award 2010 with a painting of her 100-year-old mother's corpse.
[2] She attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Girls in Canterbury, Kent.
In 1985, she won the Hunting Art Prize for oil painting with her picture "Four Spanish Chairs".
[4] In 2001, she won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the Gold Medal, and was appointed an OBE.
[1] In 2023, Todd faced controversy after claiming a local resident, who was part of a community support group she likened to the Mafia, was a token women.