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.
His father became a Sculptor, as did his sister Esther Mary Moore who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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.
Royal Navy | Royal Air Force | Bachelor of Arts | Academy Awards | United States Military Academy | Royal Dutch Shell | Russian Academy of Sciences | Royal Society | Royal Albert Hall | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Opera House | Royal Victorian Order | Royal Engineers | Royal Australian Navy | Master of Arts | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Royal National Theatre | Royal Canadian Navy | Royal Canadian Air Force | Electronic Arts | Royal Court Theatre | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Royal Marines | United States Naval Academy | United States Air Force Academy | Royal Commission | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
He became director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.
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In 1764, he became director of the Dresden Royal Academy of Arts.
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).
He was court painter to King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.
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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.
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).