Royal Academy

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...

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...

Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822.Benjamin Robert Haydon was another of those who painted her.

Sir Thomas Lawrence , President of the Royal Academy , tutored Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM ) privately in art.

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...

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.

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 ...

SP won a national competition for a two-year scholarship to the Royal Academy of Art in London. Her name headed the list of competitors for the whole country for this award.

She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican , who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting...

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)

Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin 's old home by Olive Willis , a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR , and whose biography Ridler later...

ER 's husband, Charles Eastlake , was elected President of the Royal Academy ; he also received a knighthood that autumn, changing ER 's public name to Lady Eastlake.

Charles Eastlake was an established painter and extremely active in England's artistic circles. In 1842 he became the Royal Academy 's librarian. He also served as the secretary of the Fine Arts Commission and sat...

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...

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...