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Royal Society Of British Artists
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. History The RBA commenced with twenty-seven members, and took until 1876 to reach fifty. Artists wishing to resign were required to give three months' notice and pay a fine of £100. The RBA's first two exhibitions were held in 1824, with one or two exhibitions held annually thereafter. The RBA currently has 115 elected members who participate in an annual exhibition currently held at the Mall Galleries in London. 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. Its records from 1823 to 1985 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of British Artists
The Federation of British Artists (FBA) consists of nine art societies, and is based at Mall Galleries in London where the societies' Annual Exhibitions are held. The societies represent living artists working in the United Kingdom who create contemporary figurative art. Mall Galleries aim to 'promote, inspire and educate audiences about the visual arts.' Description The FBA has over 500 artist-members, who regularly exhibit their work and also accept open submissions from the public. In addition to the member societies, other societies and individual artists also stage shows at Mall Galleries. Over 100 prizes and awards are administered each year by the societies. The gallery also has a commissions department and Friends organisation. The galleries' education department runs a Schools Programme, which includes gallery based workshops for Primary and Secondary school students. Gallery projects include a drawing school and summer courses run by the New English Art Club, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Walter Evans
Bernard Walter Evans (26 December 1843 – 26 February 1922) was a British landscape painter and watercolourist in the Romantic style, working mainly in Birmingham, Wales, London, Cannes and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Because he used a "heavy, cumbrous" horse-drawn van to reach remote sites in Yorkshire, his nickname there was Van Evans, and he was recognisable with his wideawake hat, pipe and neckerchief. He was known for his arduous days of painting in the hard Yorkshire winters, with frozen water pots, little food, and only a paraffin stove to warm his hands. Evans was the son of an engraver, and four of his siblings were artists. He began his apprenticeship at seven years old with Samuel Lines. He studied under George Wallis at the Birmingham School of Art and then with Edward Watson at the School of Landscape Art. He married Mary Ann Eliza Hollyer, sister of Frederick Hollyer, and one of his cousins was George Eliot. Evans was elected a member of the Royal Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Royle
Stanley Royle RBA, (1888–1961) was an English post-impressionist landscape painter and illustrator who lived for most of his life in and around Sheffield (England), and in Canada, and was inspired by views of landscape, sea and snow. Early life and career Royle was born at Stalybridge, Cheshire and in 1904, began studying at the Sheffield Technical School of Art. In 1908, he gained a scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies at the art school. His earliest inspiration was his tutor, Oliver. Oliver was Senior Painting Master at the art school, of whom Royle had a high opinion, and who exhibited at the Royal Academy.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada He also was influenced by Anglo-Danish artist Sir George Clausen. His first employment was as an illustrator and designer for local newspapers. In 1911, he beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Charles Powles
Lewis Charles Powles (29 January 1860 – 6 July 1942) was a British Artist. Powles was born in Cirencester, England, in January 1860, one of six children. (Document) His father was Rev. Henry C. Powles. He married Isabel Grace Wingfield on 21 January 1905. Their daughter, writer Viola Bayley, was born in 1911. Powles attended Oxford, where he studied Mathematics under Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of '' Alice in Wonderland''. Powles gained his MA from there in 1898. Powles had formal art studies under Hubert von Herkomer, followed by studies in Munich. Powles was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1903. Powles traveled extensively throughout Europe, as well as to Canada. His works are in the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, the Ferens Art Gallery, the National Trust, Lamb House, the Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Royal Collection Trust. Powles is most well known for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Power
Cyril Edward Power (17 December 1872 – 25 May 1951) was an English artist best known for his linocut prints, long-standing artistic partnership with artist Sybil Andrews and for co-founding the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London in 1925. He was also a successful architect and teacher. Early years and architecture Cyril Edward Power was born on 17 December 1872 in Redcliffe Street, Chelsea, the eldest child of Edward William Power who encouraged him to draw from an early age. This passion led to him studying architecture and working in his father's office before being awarded the Sloane Medallion by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1900 for his design for an art school.Coppel, Stephen. (1995) ''Linocuts and the Machine Age; Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School.'' Scholar Press, Oxford, UK In August 1904 Power married Dorothy Mary Nunn in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, shortly afterward moving to Putney in London where they had a son, Edward Raymond Roper-Power, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Pope
Gustav Pope (1831–1910) was a British painter of Austrian origin. Active in the Victorian era, he incorporated several styles on his work, but in his mature style he showed influences of the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Life and career Little is known about Pope's training as a painter, but he is listed as a regular exhibitor in London from 1852 to 1895, at the British Institution, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy. His work shows the influence of Thomas Seddon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic, Lord Leighton. English literary sources, classical mythology, portraiture and idealized images of young women are the most typical subjects in his paintings. Some sources shows Gustav Pope as deceased by 1895, based on the last year he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Nevertheless, a Cemetery register shows 1910 as the year of his death. In 1910, the painting ''A Rainy Day'' was presented to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Hardwick Marsh
Arthur Hardwick Marsh (27 January 1842 – 10 December 1909) was a British painter and watercolourist who flourished during the late Victorian era. Early life Born in 1842 in Fairfield in Lancashire the son of Margaret and Edward Marsh, Arthur Marsh was a painter and watercolourist of genre scenes and landscapes. Career He originally trained as an architect but later travelled to London where he studied Art at the British Museum and the National Gallery. Marsh exhibited in London from 1865 and was an Associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours (ASRW) and a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA). He spent a period working in Wales before settling in Newcastle upon Tyne. His 1887 painting ''Lighting the Beacon'' shows the role of working class women in guiding ships to shore. Other paintings include ''The Wayfarers'' (1879), ''The Turnip Cutter'' (1902), ''The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way'', ''The Worker'', ''The wreck of the Hesperus'' (186 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Stephen Lowry
Laurence Stephen Lowry ( ; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Lancashire (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity. Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He developed a distinctive style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures, often referred to as "matchstick men". He painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes, brooding portraits and the unpublished "marionette" works, which were only found after his death. He was fascinated by the sea, and painted pure seascapes, depicting only sea and sky, from the early 1940s. His use of stylised figures which cast no shadows, and lack of weather effects in many of his landscapes led critics to label him a naïve "Sunday painter". Lowry holds the record for rejecting British honours—fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Lever
Richard Hayley Lever (28 September 1876 – 6 December 1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life and work Lever was born in Bowden, South Australia on 28 September 1875, the son of Albion W. Lever. He excelled in painting classes at Prince Alfred College under James Ashton (artist), James Ashton and on leaving school continued to study under Ashton at his Norwood, South Australia, Norwood art school. He was a charter member of the Adelaide Easel Club in 1892. Lever's maternal grandfather Richard Hayley, owner of Bowden Tannery, died in 1882, and the subsequent inheritance was sufficient for Lever to finance a trip to England in 1899 to further his career in painting. He moved to St Ives, Cornwall, St. Ives, a fishing port and artistic colony on the Cornwall, Cornish coast. The town's reputation as a centre for marine painting was largel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
