Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Mick Kirkbride uses his sketchbook as an "assembly manual for a painting" to work out his composition and characters.

£45/£15. Includes early-morning access to the RA’s exhibition Entangled Pasts, 1768 - now: Art Colonialism and Change from 8.30am, light refreshments and a drinks reception. Made possible by the ...

Are there too many boring buildings? Join Thomas Heatherwick RA, Farshid Moussavi OBE RA and Austin Williams for a panel discussion that considers the role of judgement in architecture. Are we in the ...

A manuscript sheet is pasted to the front pastedown entitled "A catalogue of the prints contained in this volume which are chiefly first, and all, fine impressions." The list comprises the titles of ...

Opera Selectiora Quæ Titianus Vercellius Cadubriensis, Et Paulus Calliari Veronensis Inventarunt Ac Pinxerunt, Quæ Que Valentinus Le Febre Bruxellensis Delineavit, Et Sculpsit: Christianissimo ...

Costume In England. A History Of Dress From The Earliest Period Until The Close Of The Eighteenth Century. To Which Is Appended An Illustrated Glossary of Terms For All Articles Of Use Or Ornament ...

The inscription 'Alma Tadema' on the back of the photograph suggests that this print and possibly others in this collection originally belonged to Lawrence Alma-Tadema R.A. As reference material for ...

Picture framemaker. Brother of dealer and collector Samuel Woodburn, whom he assisted in business. Chalk lithograph on thin japanese paper pasted on a leaf of the album within a lithographic mount ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Miss Georgiana Shipley; in 1784 married historian Francis Hare-Naylor (1753-1815). They lived in Italy, Britain and from 1804 Weimar. A pupil of Joshua Reynolds, she exhibited at the Royal Academy in ...

A century of painters of the English school : with critical notices of their works, and an account of the progress of art in England / by Richard Redgrave, R.A., (Surveyor of Her Majesty's pictures ...