Royal Academy

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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.
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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...
Literary Setting Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Miss Angel traces Kauffmann 's career as that of a serious artist and working woman who becomes a society figure and a founding member of the Royal Academy in London, but slants its representation...
Literary responses Q. D. Leavis
Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society...
Leisure and Society George Eliot
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1867 and now in the National Portrait Gallery , this was said by those who knew GE to be the best likeness of her.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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The portrait may...
Leisure and Society Grace Elliott
Thomas Gainsborough painted GE (already publicly known to be a courtesan) and caused scandal by exhibiting her portrait at the Royal Academy .
This painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York.
Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press.
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Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press.
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Leisure and Society Grace Elliott
Thomas Gainsborough exhibited at the Royal Academy another portrait of GE , painted some months earlier while she was pregnant, staring defiantly at the viewer.
This painting is now in the Frick Museum , New York.
Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press.
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Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press.
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Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books.
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Leisure and Society Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
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Benjamin Robert Haydon was another of those who painted her.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Leisure and Society Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Socially MEB downplayed her status as an author, aided by the fact that as Mrs Maxwell—a name she went by even before marriage—she could move in society incognito. To this end, she attempted to...
Leisure and Society Mary Brunton
On her second visit she took in the Royal Academy Exhibition and visited the National School under the guidance of Dr Andrew Bell (a Scots Anglican clergyman, formerly of Madras, author of An Experiment in...
Leisure and Society Hannah Cowley
Richard Cosway 's painting of HCprotected by the Comic Muse was exhibited at the Royal Academy ; it was also engraved for reproduction in the Ladies Magazine.
Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto.
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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.
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Vanessa (1879-1961, the eldest of Leslie and Julia Stephen's children), were close to one another throughout their lives. In A Sketch of the Past, VW recalls that after the death of their...
Family and Intimate relationships Clementina Black
Her sister Emma was a painter who won a scholarship to study with the Royal Academy Schools.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter.
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Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson.
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Timeline

1850: The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight...

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1850

The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight of its criticism against the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .

Before May 1851: The Royal Academy accepted several Pre-Raphaelite...

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Before May 1851

The Royal Academy accepted several Pre-Raphaelite works for its annual exhibition (which opened on 5 May), despite the volley of criticism which had followed the Brotherhood's previous public displays.

Mid-1850s: US sculptor Harriet Hosmer, living and working...

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Mid-1850s

US sculptor Harriet Hosmer , living and working in Rome, broke with the convention of using nude male models for both sexes.

7 May 1855: Painter Joanna Mary Boyce's Elgiva was hung...

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7 May 1855

Painter Joanna Mary Boyce 's Elgiva was hung at the Royal Academy exhibition; this was Boyce's first public exposure.

3 May 1858: Rosa Brett made her exhibition debut, showing...

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3 May 1858

Rosa Brett made her exhibition debut, showing The Hayloft at the Royal Academy , under the pseudonym Rosarius.

4 May 1874: Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler, exhibited...

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4 May 1874

Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler , exhibited her painting Roll Call at the Royal Academy ; it was bought by Queen Victoria .

1859: A Royal Commission was appointed to investigate...

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1859

A Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the workings of the Royal Academy of Arts, including the role of women artists.

1861: Fearing adverse publicity, and sensing a...

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1861

Fearing adverse publicity, and sensing a shift in public opinion, the Royal Academy of Arts acceeded to demands that female artists be granted admission and membership.

Before May 1862: Whistler's highly realist painting The White...

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Before May 1862

Whistler 's highly realist painting The White Girl was rejected by the Royal Academy .

1863: A Government Commission on art was established;...

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1863

A Government Commission on art was established; Robertson Blaine proposed full Royal Academy membership for women.

May 1867: The Royal Academy of Arts was compelled to...

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May 1867

The Royal Academy of Arts was compelled to repeal the quota system it had instituted to limit its numbers of female students.

3 May 1869: Catherine Madox Brown made her exhibition...

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3 May 1869

Catherine Madox Brown made her exhibition debut with At the Opera at the Royal Academy .

By 16 May 1874: The Royal Academy chose as its picture of...

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By 16 May 1874

The Royal Academy chose as its picture of the year Elizabeth Thompson 's The Calling of the Roll after the Crimea; Thompson was the first woman to receive such an honour.

Summer 1874: Watercolourist Helen (Paterson) Allingham...

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Summer 1874

Watercolourist Helen (Paterson) Allingham gained the recognition of the London artistic establishment after two of her paintings were selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

By 12 May 1877: The Grosvenor Gallery (welcomed by a Punch...

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By 12 May 1877

The Grosvenor Gallery (welcomed by a Punch cartoon on this date) was established as an alternative exhibition arena to the Royal Academy shows. It lasted until 1891.

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