Doug Moran prize: Australia’s richest portrait award quietly ‘put on hold’

The 2022 Doug Moran prize-winner Graeme Drendel with the subject of his portrait, artist Lewis Miller (left). The prize has not been handed out since then. Photograph: Brendan Read

Australia’s richest portrait prize has quietly disappeared.

The Archibald may be the country’s oldest and loudest, but at $150,000 – and $1,000 for each of the 30 annual finalists – the Doug Moran national portrait prize has been by far the most lucrative.