Royal Academy

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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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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...
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...
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 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 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.
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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

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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