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Angelica Kauffman, Royal Academy review: Portrait of a pioneer – 250 years late
To be elected to the Royal Academy was (and is) a mark of prestige: an endorsement by the most admired artists of your time. Johan Zoffany’s painting The Academicians of the Royal Academy (1771 ...
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Delving into the Royal Academy's past as it looks to its future
Images and details of the permutations are documented in Stories from the Past - Visions of the Future: The Royal Academy and its ... the work of its Academicians, and the RA Schools, alongside ...
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Angelica Kauffman at the Royal Academy review: still exceptional, even if the sentimentality is a bit cloying
She wrote to the Royal Academy to demand the withdrawal of the ... Famously, in Zoffany’s painting of the first Academicians at the life class – which women couldn’t attend – she and ...