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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly in London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.

"Royal Academy" redirects here. For other uses, see Royal Academy (disambiguation). For the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands, see Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

Established

1768 (1768)

Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

1,285,595 (as of 2016)[1]

Rebecca Salter

London Underground Green Park; Piccadilly Circus

royalacademy.org.uk

War memorials[edit]

In the entrance portico are two war memorials. One is in memory of the students of the Royal Academy Schools who fell in World War I[53] and the second commemorates the 2,003 men of the Artists Rifles who gave their lives in that war with a further plaque to those who died in World War II.[54]

6 Burlington Gardens

behind the Royal Academy, with many art galleries

Cork Street

Royal West of England Academy

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Chisholm, Hugh

Hodgson, J. E.; Eaton, Fred A. (1905). . London: Charles Scribner's Sons.

The Royal academy and its members 1768–1830

Holme, Charles (1904). (PDF).

The Royal Academy from Reynolds to Millais

George Dunlop Leslie: (London: John Murray, 1914)

The inner life of the Royal Academy, with an account of its schools and exhibitions principally in the reign of Queen Victoria

The History of the Royal Academy 1768–1968, Sidney C. Hutchison, Taplinger, NY, 1968

Smith, Charles Saumarez (2012). The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. London: Bloomsbury/Modern Art Press.  9781408182109.

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– official website

Royal Academy

– official website

Royal Academy Collection

on the Art UK site

Paintings at Royal Academy of Arts

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