Articles

Thomas Gainsborough RA

Loyset Liédet, Pasiphaë

RA Recommends

> 6 years ago

Five of the best London archives

The RA archive is a treasure trove of stories, memories and recordings about art and artists from the past 250 years. In honour of Explore Your Archive week, we introduce some of its highlights and four more London archives to explore, holding everything from American performance art footage to rare Japanese prints.

Benjamin west PRA, The Death of General Wolfe

Inside the Academy

> 7 years ago

Benjamin West: a very contemporary artist

As his biography of Benjamin West PRA is published, Loyd Grossman reveals how this founding member of the Academy broke with the past like no other artist of his era.
John Constable RA, The Leaping Horse

RA Exhibitions

> 10 years ago

Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape

Tracing the emergence of landscape painting as a distinct genre in its own right.