Throughout May we're celebrating Friends and Members of the RA with a month-long series of special events and offers. Our members’ café on the main floor of the Keeper’s House is serving freshly baked ...

We’ll do everything we can to make sure your experience of the RA is enjoyable, comfortable and memorable. Find information on the accessibility of our buildings and facilities. This includes ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Wordsworth's poems for the young / with fifty illustrations by John Macwhirter and John Pettie, and a vignette by J.E. Millais ; engraved by Dalziel Brothers.

A century of painters of the English school : with critical notices of their works, and an account of the progress of art in England / by Richard Redgrave, R.A., (Surveyor of Her Majesty's pictures ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds, founding President of the Royal Academy, painted this portrait of Sir William Chambers RA as a pendant to his own self-portrait (1780). It is thought that the two hung either side ...

The RA Architecture Prize and The RA Dorfman Prize celebrate outstanding international contributions to design and uncover fresh new talent. Hear from leading architects from the UK and around the ...

Stop off for a fresh coffee and light refreshment at the RA Café and Poster Bar by José or experience the taste of Spain at José Pizarro’s restaurant in Burlington Gardens. The RA Café is a decadent ...

I have met brilliant people on the course. My cohort colleagues brought me joy, knowledge and life experiences. It is a special group of people, and I genuinely felt lucky to be part of the team.

English writer, printmaker, Clergyman and Schoolmaster, best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. Based in Surrey (1753-77) and Hampshire (1777- 1804). Brother of ...

C.H. Smith & S.R. Meyrick, The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, London 1815, pl.[X] Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and ...

A manuscript sheet is pasted to the front pastedown entitled "A catalogue of the prints contained in this volume which are chiefly first, and all, fine impressions." The list comprises the titles of ...