Royal Academy

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...