Bakewell, Susan. “A Muse on the Move: The Hon. Anne Seymour Damer, from England to Italy (via France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal), 1762-1799”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Providence, RI.
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Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
began exhibiting her sculpture at the annual Royal Academy
show in London; she was a regular contributor to this event until 1818. |
Textual Production | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
exhibited for the only time at the Royal Academy
, with a picture entitled The Castaway, which depicts a fallen woman or prostitute. McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">Punch</span>, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press. 3 Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell. |
Textual Features | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's heroine, Mary Erle, struggles to negotiate contemporary notions of femininity, marriage, and motherhood with her own desire to live independently and to pursue her own profession. After her father's death, she faces the... |
Textual Features | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | The Headland was strongly influenced by the writing of Dorothy Richardson
, whom Dawson Scott had met in Cornwall during the first world war. Its story takes three chapters for three cataclysmic days. The protagonist... |
Residence | Elizabeth Strutt | |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | Charles Landseer
(brother of Sir Edwin Landseer
) exhibited at the Royal Academy
a painting from JB
's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 511 |
Occupation | Sarojini Naidu | Earlier this year she had worked with British professionals in the arts to choose and assemble artefacts for a major exhibition of Indian art at the Royal Academy
in London during the coming winter. Roberts, Cleo. “1947: India, Art and Nationhood”. London Library Magazine, No. 38, pp. 22-5. 24-5 |
Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom... |
Occupation | Rosemary Sutcliff | She began to work as a miniature painter, following advice from her parents and the headmaster of Bideford Art School
(who allowed her to use an empty room there as her studio) that she would... |
Occupation | Pat Arrowsmith | The young PA
was serious about her drawing and painting. She showed considerable talent and her diary records a high investment of time in these pursuits. She sold a pencil copy of a landscape (in... |
Occupation | Emilie Barrington | EB
, who was artistically gifted, entered work for the Royal Academy
Exhibition in 1871, while pregnant with her second child, but was not accepted. She claimed to have taken art lessons from Ruskin
... |
Occupation | Frances Reynolds | She was also already a painter on her own account. She had done a portrait of Joshua around 1746 (now in the Cottonian Collection in the city museum and art gallery of Plymouth) Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press. 264 |
Occupation | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
wrote later that many people thought her a singular, and perhaps imprudent person, because I rhymed, and ventured into the world as an artist; but I belonged to a large family, and dreaded dependence... |
Occupation | Kate Greenaway | By 1873, KG
began receiving offers to illustrate popular books and magazines; she left school to pursue a career as an illustrator, while hoping to become a published author. Her pictures for greetings cards for... |
Occupation | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley
, editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to... |
Timeline
March 1755: A committee of twenty-six artists produced...
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March 1755
A committee of twenty-six artists produced a plan for an Academy to improve and promote the arts.
December 1768: George III signed the papers for establishing...
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December 1768
George III
signed the papers for establishing the Royal Academy of Arts
. Angelica Kauffman or Kauffmann
was among the twenty-eight founding members who first met in January 1769 to hear an address by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1770 or 1771: Scottish painter George Romney did a portrait...
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1770 or 1771
Scottish painter George Romney
did a portrait of English painter Mary Moser
which shows her using the medium of oils, mark of the professional rather than the amateur.
1777: Richard Samuel engraved his Nine Living Muses...
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1777
Richard Samuel
engraved his Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (or Portraits in the Character of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo) for Johnson's Ladies New and Polite Pocket Memorandum for 1778...
Summer 1780: The Royal Academy's first annual exhibition...
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Summer 1780
The Royal Academy
's first annual exhibition to be held in the new Somerset House (built by Sir William Chambers
) topped all records, with attendance of 61,381 and receipts of £3,074.6s.
April 1781: Giuseppi Baretti sought to make the Royal...
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April 1781
Giuseppi Baretti
sought to make the Royal Academy
exhibitions more accessible by publishing A Guide through the Academy.
1797: The complete set of addresses delivered over...
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1797
The complete set of addresses delivered over the years to students at the Royal Academy
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
was published as Fifteen Discourses on Art.
Early May 1831 and 1832: Sarah Biffin exhibited at the Royal Academy...
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Early May 1831 and 1832
Sarah Biffin
exhibited at the Royal Academy
under her married name of Mrs E. M. Wright. Born without arms or legs, she became a skilled painter and embroiderer, holding her brush or needle in her...
April 1838: The National Gallery moved into its new facility...
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April 1838
The National Gallery
moved into its new facility at Charing Cross.
25 November 1841: Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey died, leaving...
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25 November 1841
Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey
died, leaving conditions in his will that after the death of his wife, more than £100,000 would be left to set up a national public collection of fine art in Britain.
1 May 1843: Richard Redgrave exhibited his painting The...
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1 May 1843
7 May 1848: The Royal Academy exhibition presented 1474...
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7 May 1848
The Royal Academy
exhibition presented 1474 works by 853 exhibitors; of these, only 126 works were by 77 female artists, a scant 10% of the total.
: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...
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Autumn1848
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy
.
: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting The Girlhood...
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Spring1849
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (featuring Christina Rossetti as its model) appearing at the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park Gallery
, was the first to display the initials of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
.
7 May 1849: The Royal Academy exhibition (held on the...
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7 May 1849
The Royal Academy
exhibition (held on the first Monday in May) featured the first Pre-Raphaelite
works by William Holman Hunt
and John Everett Millais
.
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