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 Society of Arts and a fellow of the Linnean Society , had published a number of books and exhibited as a painter at the Royal Academy , carried out...
Family and Intimate relationships Laurence Alma-Tadema
He had already, the previous year, exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time.
Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell.
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.
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She herself became a...
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.
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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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