The John Madejski Fine RoomsFree Gallery Tours  Summer Exhibition: Fine Rooms Take a free guided tour and find out more about the history of the institution as well as seeing a special display which celebrates the work of eight Royal Academcians who sadly passed away this year, including Donald Hamilton Fraser, Craigie Aitchison, Michael Kidner, Flavia Irwin, Jim Cadbury-Brown, Frederick Gore, John Craxton and Barry Flanagan. The display includes the artist's Diploma works from the RA Collection. >More ... Sir Henry Rushbury RA: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 4 June-12 September 2010 The Tennant Gallery Free Admission; Tuesday - Sunday, 10am -6pm.  Internationally renowned during his lifetime but neglected today, Rushbury took as his subject matter the landscapes, cities and street-life of Britain and Europe. Whether working in watercolour or the exacting medium of drypoint, drawing was the cornerstone of Rushbury's art, enabling him to conjure extraordinary effects of mood and atmosphere in his depictions of the places and people he encountered. >More ... Searching the CollectionsThe Royal Academy Collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, historic books, archives, historic photographs and plaster casts. To search any of these categories either use the quick search box above or for more advanced searches visit Search all collections to search across all media, or narrow your search by choosing to search Works of art, Books or Archives. Alternatively you can browse by the Name A-Zor visit Help. Currently, only works of art which have been digitised are available on the website. More images are added each month, and in due course all records will be made available. Works of art are mainly by British artists from the 18th century to the present day. >More... The Library and Archive form one of the most significant resources for the study of British Art from 1760 onwards. >More... Academy in the 18th Century The Royal Academicians in General Assembly by Henry Singleton was painted in 1795 and shows artists gathered in the Academy's rooms at Somerset House. In this interactive you can explore the people, including Benjamin West PRA, and the first two women members of the Royal Academy, as well as the objects and pictures shown in this painting. >More Benjamin West PRA - History Painter to the King Watch a series of interviews in which Loyd Grossman and Curators from the Collection discuss Benjamin West’s meteoric career, his apocalyptic subjects and a satirical print which reveals how West and other Academicians were duped into buying a fake manuscript which purported to reveal the secret techniques of the Old Masters. More> Constable's paintings![John Constable RA, The Leaping Horse [detail], oil on canvas, 1825. © Royal Academy of Arts, London.](http://www.racollection.org.uk/asset_arena/image/le/bgconstable.jpg) In the section on Constable's Paintings you can explore paintings by John Constable in the Royal Academy Collection. You can also watch videos of MaryAnne Stevens and Michael Rosenthal discussing Constable's work in relation to his observations of different weather conditions on the landscape, the oil sketches he made around Hampstead and his great masterpiece, The Leaping Horse. Artist of the Month - August 2010 >More.... Object of the Month - August 2010 John Frederick Lewis RA: An Album of early drawings by Lewis and his family In this interactive you can explore over 170 drawings from an album of works by J. F. Lewis and his family. You can also listen to curators Briony Llewellyn and Sally Doust discussing how the album was put together; the importance of this artistic family, Lewis's enthusiasm for drawing animals and his later career as an Orientalist painter. More> |