Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell.
Royal Academy
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton
, an army colonel and a pitiless hero in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Leakey | Caroline's father, James Leakey
, was the son of John Leakey
who was involved in wool trading. James was an artist who painted portraits, landscapes, and small interiors, but was best known for his oil... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | He had been a member of the Christ Church
congregation to which she belonged, as well as a fellow student of Gabriel
at the Royal Academy
, but had converted to Catholicism. She was not... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Loudon | He was a member of the |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | He had already, the previous year, exhibited at the Royal Academy
for the first time. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's brother Joseph Alfred
(known as Alfred) set up the famous family music firm, which gave a continuing framework to the publishing projects of his father. He managed the firm until 1856. Edward Petre |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | In London he became a highly successful painter and a member of the Royal Academy
, known particularly for classical subjects handled with richly-coloured sensuous detail that suggested the seventeenth-century Dutch painters. After his death... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Lloyd was the daughter of the squire of Rhagatt in Merionethshire, Wales; a maiden aunt in the family had been a friend of the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | AM
's sister Elizabeth
, later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1874... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy
were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | LAT
's sister, Anna
, also became a painter. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1885 and continued to do so at the rate of a painting about every two years. She had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | Laura Alma-Tadema was the daughter of the homoeopathic doctor George Napoleon Epps
. Her sister Ellen
married Edmund Gosse
. Childless herself, she was a loving mother to her stepdaughters. Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton. 95 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | Her husband is last heard of exhibiting at the Royal Academy
in 1858. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland. 535 Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Palmer | The best-known among MP
's siblings was her brother Joshua
, seven years her junior, whose work as a portrait painter eventually won him a knighthood and the first Presidency of the Royal Academy
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | She became a sculptor, who exhibited three portrait works at the Royal Academy
between 1868 and 1874. Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell. |
Timeline
1879: Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler,...
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1879
Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler
, sister of poet Alice Meynell
, fought unsuccessfully to become the first woman elected as a Royal Academy
member.
1881: Incandescent electric lighting was installed...
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1881
Incandescent electric lighting was installed at the Savoy Theatre, London.
1884: The Art Workers' Guild was founded, with...
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1884
The Art Workers' Guild
was founded, with a mandate to seek the Unity of all the Aesthetic Arts.
May 1885: John Callcott Horsley, Rector of the Royal...
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May 1885
John Callcott Horsley
, Rector of the Royal Academy
, first stated his objection to the use of nude female models in a letter to The Times which he signed a British Matron.
8 June 1885: A Punch cartoon by Du Maurier on the annual...
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8 June 1885
A Punch cartoon by Du Maurier
on the annual Royal Academy
exhibition made fun of the recent controversy over nude models.
1889: The Royal Academy of Arts voted to allow...
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1889
The Royal Academy
of Arts voted to allow application for membership by female artists; however, this remained only a theoretical possibility for 33 years.
1893: The Royal Academy provided male models to...
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1893
The Royal Academy
provided male models to its female life drawing classes.
25 January 1896: Lord Leighton of Stretton died: he was a...
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25 January 1896
Lord Leighton of Stretton
died: he was a leading classical painter and President of the Royal Academy
.
4-22 May 1914: Militant suffragettes slashed several paintings...
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4-22 May 1914
Militant suffragettes slashed several paintings at the Royal Academy
and the National Gallery
, including Sargent
's portrait of Henry James
.
29 November 1947 - 29 February 1948: The Royal Academy in London held an important...
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29 November 1947 - 29 February 1948
The Royal Academy
in London held an important exhibition of Indian and Pakistani art. Sarojini Naidu
was one of those who worked with British arts professionals to find and select the exhibits.
1955: Italian artist Pietro Annigoni drew record...
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1955
Italian artist Pietro Annigoni
drew record attendance to the Royal Academy
's summer Exhibition with his somewhat romantic portrait HM the QueenQueen Elizabeth II
.
1967: Thirty-one years after becoming a full member...
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1967
Thirty-one years after becoming a full member of the Royal Academy of Arts
, Dame Laura Knight
received an invitation to its annual dinner, the first attended by women.
1987: The Tate Gallery bought Sonia Boyce's drawing...
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1987
The Tate Gallery
bought Sonia Boyce
's drawing entitled Missionary Position II. Boyce was the first black female artist to enter the collection and, she later discovered to her shock, only the fifth woman.
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