Royal Society of British Artists

The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.

History

The RBA has 110 elected members who participate in an annual exhibition currently held at the Mall Galleries in London. The Society's previous gallery was a building designed by John Nash (architect) in Suffolk Street. Queen Victoria granted the Society the Royal Charter in 1887.

It is one of the 9 member societies that form the Federation of British Artists which administers the Mall Galleries, next to Trafalgar Square.

Its records 1823–1985 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.^[1]

Prominent Members

• John Noble Barlow
• Edmund Blampied
• Henry John Boddington
• Estella Canziani
• Albert Henry Collings
• Ralph Hedley
• Cyril Edward Power
• Stanley Royle
• James Whistler
• Christopher Williams

Presidents

• 1824 Thomas Heaphy
• 1825 TC Holland
• 1826 John Glover (artist)
• 1827 J Wilson
• 1828 Henry Hoppner Meyer
• 1829 Clarkson Stanfield
• 1830 James Holmes (artist)
• 1831 David Roberts (painter)
• 1832 Richard Barrett David
• 1833 George Stevens (artist)
• 1834 Elias Childe
• 1835 Edward Prentis
• 1836 Frederick Yates Hulstone
• 1837 William Linton (artist)
• 1838 Joseph William Allen
• 1839 George Maddox
• 1840 Eugenio H Latilla
• 1841 Frederick Yates Hulstone
• 1870 Alfred Clint
• 1881 John Burr
• 1886 James McNeill Whistler
• 1887 Sir Wyke Bayliss
• 1906 Sir Alfred East
• 1913 Sir Frank Brangwyn
• 1919 Solomon Joseph Solomon
• 1928 Walter Richard Sickert
• 1930 Philip de László
• 1931 Bertram Nicholls
• 1947 John Copley (artist)
• 1950 Hesketh Hubbard
• 1956 Edward Halliday
• 1974 Peter Greenham
• 1982 Peter Garrard
• 1987 Tom Coates (artist)
• 1993 Colin Hayes (artist)
• 1998 Cav. Romeo Di Girolamo
• 2009 James Horton

Notes and references

External links

• Royal Society of British Artists

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