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3 unusual facts about Royal Academy of Arts


Frederick Whymper

In his youth, Whymper was a talented artist working to produce engravings for publication and having his landscapes on exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1859 to 1861.

John Edmund Sharrock Moore

His father became a Sculptor, as did his sister Esther Mary Moore who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Thomas Charles Dewey

In 1898 Hellicar extended the house and in 1902 he designed the music pavilion within the grounds; the design of which was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.


Charles François Hutin

He became director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.

In 1764, he became director of the Dresden Royal Academy of Arts.

Daniel Silver

Group exhibitions include Dustcatcher, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2012); We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2011); No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010); and Newspeak: British Art Now, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and Saatchi Gallery, London (2009).

Louis de Silvestre

He was court painter to King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.

Both Augustus II and his son were great admirers of Silvestre's work, and bestowed upon him, in the space of thirty years, every honour imaginable: he was appointed first court painter, then, in 1727, director of the Royal Academy of Arts; he was ennobled in 1741, as was his brother Charles-François.

Richard Shone

Shone curated several exhibitions dedicated to British art, such as Walter Sickert’s portraits at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath (1990); a full Sickert retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1992–93, with Wendy Baron); The Art of Bloomsbury for the Tate Gallery, London (1999).


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