Royal Academy

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Between 1819 and 1831, ES 's second husband exhibited at the Academy from four different addresses around London: the first, where they stayed longest (for seven years) was 34 Percy Street. He exhibited from...

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...

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...

AMH exhibited for the only time at the Royal Academy , with a picture entitled The Castaway, which depicts a fallen woman or prostitute.

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