Highlights of the Royal Academy of Arts - Gallery

Thumbnail image of At Torre Galli: Ladies in a Garden, 1910. Creator: John Singer Sargent.

Heritage Images is proud to announce its partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts.

Founded by King George III in 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts holds a unique and inspiring collection that spans 250 years of British art.

The RA‘s collection includes works by seminal artists such as Joshua Reynolds, Angelica Kauffman, John Constable, John Flaxman and Thomas Gainsborough.

Aside from exceptional paintings, the Collection includes thousands of influential historic volumes, monographs, books, prints, historic photographs and drawings from the Royal Academy of Arts Library. We are happy to share some highlights from the collection in this gallery.

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Bust of a woman, possibly Ippolita Maria Sforza, 19th century (original c1473). Creator: D Brucciani & Co
 
Three Sisters, 1922. Creator: George Harcourt
 
Brambles, 1920. Creator: George Henry
 
Mary, 1932. Creator: George Spencer Watson
 
Portrait of Queen Victoria, 1842-43. Creator: Sir Martin Archer Shee
 
The Lass of Richmond Hill, 1876. Creator: George Dunlop Leslie
 
Self-portrait, c1780. Creator: Sir Joshua Reynolds
 
Le Chef de l'Hôtel Chatham, Paris, c1921. Creator: William Orpen
 
The Harbour Window, 1910. Creator: Stanhope A Forbes
 
Henry Stacy Marks R.A., c1860s. Creator: David Wilkie Wynfield
 
Photo from The Sphere of RA students painting an Italian subject in the Women's Life..., c1925. Creator: Unknown
 
Melopepo (Summer Squash), from Giorgio Bonelli's Hortus Romanus, vol. I (1772). Creator: Maddalena Bouchard
 
Cast of the Townley Venus, 1813. Creator: Unknown
 
Seated female nude, (c1800?). Creator: Thomas Stothard
 
Copy of Leonardo's The Last Supper, c1515-20. Creators: Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
 
Theory, 1779-80. Creator: Sir Joshua Reynolds
 
Flowers in a Black Vase, c1940. Creator: Evelyn Ince
 
A Lute Player, 1899. Creator: Edwin Austin Abbey
 
Floriated ornament: a series of thirty-one designs by Augustus Welby Pugin, architect..., 1849. Creator: H C Maguire
 
Reclining female nude, early 20th century. Creator: Arthur George Walker
 
Tea in the Studio, 1932. Creator: Arthur George Walker
 
Pineapple, from Giorgio Bonelli's Hortus Romanus, vol. I (1772). Creator: Maddalena Bouchard
 
John Dawson Watson, 1862 or 1863. Creator: David Wilkie Wynfield
 
A Souvenir of Velazquez, 1868. Creator: John Everett Millais
 
Portrait of William IV, 1835. Creator: Sir Martin Archer Shee
 
Bust of George III, 1773. Creator: Agostino Carlini
 
Portrait of Giuseppe Marchi, 1753. Creator: Sir Joshua Reynolds
 
Paul preaching in the Areopagus, 1729-31. Creator: Sir James Thornhill
 
Cast of the Borghese Gladiator, (late 19th century?). Creator: Agasias
 
Self-portrait of Sir George Clausen, R.A., 1882. Creator: George Clausen
 
On Strike, 1891. Creator: Hubert von Herkomer
 
Science is Measurement, 1879. Creator: Henry Stacy Marks
 
View of a Lady in Pink standing in a Cornfield, 1881. Creator: George Clausen
 
Still life with tulips, c1923. Creator: George Clausen
 
Design for Eagle Wharf, Narrow Street, Limehouse, London E14: perspective of front to..., c1862-63. Creator: Richard Norman Shaw
 
Sickness, 1778. Creator: John Bacon I
 
"When snow the pasture sheets", 1915. Creator: Joseph Farquharson
 
At Torre Galli: Ladies in a Garden, 1910. Creator: John Singer Sargent
 
Seascape Study: Boat and Stormy Sky, 20 July 1828. Creator: John Constable
 
Thor battering the Midgard Serpent, 1790. Creator: Henry Fuseli
 
Apollo and Marpessa, c1790-94. Creator: John Flaxman
 
Lesson Time, 1908. Creator: Harrington Mann
 
Philosophy, late 18th century. Creator: Giuseppe Cades
 
Design for bureau with clock, vases and foliate ornamentation, 1769. Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
 
Portrait of Thomas Stothard, R.A., ?1820s. Creator: James Northcote
 
Landscape with trees, c19th century. Creator: John Baxter
 
Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right, 11 September 1821. Creator: John Constable
 
A Mermaid, 1900. Creator: John William Waterhouse
 
Startled, 1892. Creator: Frank Dicksee
 
Partial copy of Las Meninas (by Diego Velazquez), 1862. Creator: John Phillip
 
Man Shaving, c1930s. Creator: Leonard Rosoman
 
The Gothick Temple, Stowe, 1971. Creator: Leonard Rosoman
 
Study for The Death of Acteon c1970s. Creator: Leonard Rosoman
 
Landscape study with lane and cloudy sky, c1875-1944. Creator: George Clausen
 
Landscape with expansive cloudy sky, c1875-1944. Creator: George Clausen
 
Landscape with hayfield and poplars, probably 1920s. Creator: George Clausen
 
A hillside landscape with trees and a house, late 19th century or first half of 20th century. Creator: Agnes Mary Webster
 
Seascape Study: Brighton Beach looking west, c1824-28. Creator: John Constable
 
Portrait of James Osborne, 1913. Creator: George Clausen
 
Swimming Pool Key West, 1996. Creator: Leonard Rosoman
 
Summer, c1780. Creator: Mary Moser
 
Carreau de fayence Persane 1880. Creators: Adalbert de Beaumont, Eugène-Victor Collinot
 
Study of cottages, c1875-1944. Creator: George Clausen
 
Study of blossoming trees in an orchard, 1891. Creator: George Clausen
 
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, c1901. Creator: Walter Richard Sickert
 
Studio Experiments in Colour and Media, c1750-1790. Creator: Sir Joshua Reynolds
 
Ananias and Sapphira, 1729-31. Creator: Sir James Thornhill
 
Thomas Gainsborough, c1906. Creator: Thomas Brock
 
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of the Prince and Princess of Wales going to a..., 1870. Creator: Sir John Gilbert
 
Plat Fayence 1880. Creators: Adalbert de Beaumont, Eugène-Victor Collinot
 
St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, 1933. Creator: Terrick Williams
 
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), c1816, original c100BC-50AD. Creator: Unknown
 
Nymphaea alba major, from Giorgio Bonelli's Hortus Romanus, vol. IV (1776). Creator: Maddalena Bouchard
 
Fowl Skeleton: lateral view (A comparative anatomical exposition of the human body..., 1804-06. Creator: George Stubbs