List: Royal Academicians

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•  Edwin Austin Abbey

  Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation.". His most famous work, The Quest of the Holy Grail, resides in the Boston Public Library.

  

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•  Joshua Reynolds

  Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769.

  

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•  Thomas Gainsborough

  Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was a British portrait and landscape painter.

  

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•  Augustus John

  Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse.

  

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•  Francesco Zuccarelli

  Francesco Zuccarelli (15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788) was an Italian Rococo painter. He was born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, where he initially apprenticed with Paolo Anesi. He then worked in Rome with Pietro Nelli and perhaps Andrea Locatelli. In 1732, he settled Venice, he became famous as one of the most desired landscape painters of the classicizing 18th century.

  

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•  J. M. W. Turner

  Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting.

  

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•  Thomas Lawrence (painter)

  Sir Thomas Lawrence RA (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits.

  

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•  Edwin Lutyens

  Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses.

  

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•  John Everett Millais

  Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

  

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•  Thomas Woolner

  Thomas Woolner RA (17 December 1825 – 7 October 1892) was an English sculptor and poet.

  

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•  John Constable

  John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821.

  

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•  William Quiller Orchardson

  Sir William Quiller Orchardson (27 March 1832—13 April 1910) was a noted Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects who was knighted in June 1907, at the age of 75.

  

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•  Edward Hodges Baily

  Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS (10 March 1788 - 22 May 1867) - (sometimes misspelled Bailey) was an English sculptor who was born in Downend in Bristol.

  

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•  Sir William Chambers

  Sir William Chambers (27 October 1723 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish architect, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his father was a merchant. Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making several voyages to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration. Returning to Europe, he studied architecture in Paris and spent five years in Italy. Then, in 1755, he travelled to England and established an architectural practice in London.

  

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•  Thomas Banks

  Thomas Banks (December 29, 1735 – February 2, 1805), English sculptor, son of a surveyor who was land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, was born in London. He was taught drawing by his father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a woodcarver. In his spare time he worked at sculpture, spending his evenings in the studio of the Flemish émigré sculptor Peter Scheemakers.

  

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•  Angelica Kauffmann

  Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffmann (October 30, 1741 – November 5, 1807) was a Swiss-Austrian Neoclassical painter.

  

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•  John Skeaping

  John Rattenbury Skeaping, RA (9 June 1901 – 5 March 1980) was an English sculptor and equine painter. Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith's College, London, and later at the Royal Academy. He was the first husband of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, with whom he exhibited during the 1920s. He was a member of the London Group, and later worked for a period in Mexico. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1960.

  

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•  Richard Wilson (painter)

  Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Wilson has been described as '... the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country. ' Wilson is considered to be the father of landscape painting in Britain.

  

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•  James Barry (painter)

  James Barry (11 October 1741 – 22 February 1806), Irish painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts.

  

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•  Royal Academy

  This article is about an art institution in London. For other meanings of Royal Academy see Royal Academy (disambiguation). For the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (Netherlands), see Royal Academy of Art (The Hague). The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England.

  

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•  Tracey Emin

  Tracey Karima Emin RA (born 3 July 1963) is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs. In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure, when she appeared drunk and swearing on a live Channel 4 TV discussion.

  

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•  Joseph Nollekens

  Joseph Nollekens (11 August 1737 – 23 April 1823) was a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century. He was also a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768. He studied first under Peter Scheemakers before studying and working as an antiques dealer, restorer and copier in Rome from 1759 to 1770. Returning to England he became one of the most fashionable portrait sculptors in the country.

  

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•  Richard Deacon (sculptor)

  Richard Deacon CBE (born 15 August 1949) is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.

  

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•  Antony Gormley

  Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is an English sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, and Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool.

  

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•  Patrick Caulfield

  Patrick Caulfield, CBE (29 January 1936 – 29 September 2005) was an English painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvases.

  

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