Royal Academy

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...

Thomas Gainsborough painted GE (already publicly known to be a courtesan) and caused scandal by exhibiting her portrait at the Royal Academy .

Thomas Gainsborough exhibited at the Royal Academy another portrait of GE , painted some months earlier while she was pregnant, staring defiantly at the viewer.

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.

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...

AD began exhibiting her sculpture at the annual Royal Academy show in London; she was a regular contributor to this event until 1818.

EC studied music in Berlin with Alexis Holländer and at London's Royal Academy , aiming to become a concert pianist.

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.

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 )...

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

EFC painted miniatures, which she exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1799. She told the RLF in 1811 that in addition to publishing from an early age she taught drawing.

In 2012 AC took the chorus part in a staged reading of her own Antigonick (adapted from Sophocles ), 2012. A few years later she took the title role with great fierceness in Tacita Dean...

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...

Both Charlotte and Branwell aspired to become artists. She studied drawing seriously, first with a private tutor, later at Roe Head, and after her return independently, by copying romantic illustrations from annuals such as Friendship's...

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...