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The Society's previous gallery was a building designed by John Nash in Suffolk Street. Queen Victoria granted the Society the Royal Charter in 1887. It is one of the nine member societies that form the Federation of British Artists which administers the Mall Galleries, next to Trafalgar Square .
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
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. Pages in category "Members of the Royal Society of British Artists"
Joseph Edward Southall RWS NEAC RBSA (23 August 1861 – 6 November 1944) was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.. A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link ...
Ethel Kirkpatrick produced paintings and woodcut work in colour. From 1891 she began exhibiting at several London galleries, at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibitions twelve times 1895-1941 and with the Royal Society of British Artists. [3] Kirkpatrick was a member of the Society of Graver Painters and of the Colour Woodcut Society. [3]
A large part of her collection is preserved in the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Canziani was a Quaker and member of the Royal Society of British Artists, Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, Society of Painters in Tempera, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Folklore Society.
William Ratcliffe (1870–1955) – English artist; Phelan Gibb (1870–1948) – British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910–1914; Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871–1958) – Scottish artist; Florence Engelbach (1872–1951) – English painter born in Spain; Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) – English artist and illustrator
William Shipley by Richard Cosway. Engraved portrait of William Shipley (William Hincks, late 18c.). William Shipley FRSA (baptised: 2 June 1715 – 28 December 1803) was an English drawing master, social reformer and inventor who, in 1754, founded an arts society in London that became The Royal Society of Arts, or Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).