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The RBA commenced with twenty-seven members, and took until 1876 to reach fifty. [2] [3] Artists wishing to resign were required to give three months' notice and pay a fine of £100. [3] The RBA's first two exhibitions were held in 1824, with one or two exhibitions held annually thereafter. [4]
Richard Peter Cook RBA (born 1949 in Grimsby) is an English portrait and landscape artist working predominantly in oils and watercolour. [1] [2] Graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 1975, he was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artists the same year, becoming a full member in 1976.
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"
He curated an exhibition for the Arts Council at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, entitled "The Human Clay" (an allusion to W. H. Auden's lines 'To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso … '), [9] including works by 48 London artists, such as William Roberts, Richard Carline, Colin Self and Maggi Hambling, championing the cause of figurative art at a time ...
He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (RBC), and exhibited regularly at many venues including the Royal Academy in London.
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Stannard and his father descended from a family of well known Bedfordshire artists that included his sisters Lilian Stannard and Emily Stannard. [4] He was educated at Bedford Modern School, [5] and the National Art Training School in South Kensington. [6] He was elected to the RBA in 1896 remaining a member until 1909. [3]
Born in London, Ward was a renowned painter of the Victorian era who won a gold medal for some of his works exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists. [3] In 1882 while still a student at the Royal Academy he won two silver medals. Then Bernard E. Ward founded, together with A. A. Calderon (1847-1911), London´s St John's Wood Art School.