Royal Society of Portrait Painters

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP ) is a British artist association of portrait painters and belongs to the Federation of British Artists (FBA ) to. The Company is domiciled in the Mall Galleries in London, where the other members of the Federation of British Artists are housed.

History

The Company was founded by 24 artists as a Society of Portrait Painters in 1891 - among them the painter John Collier - founded, who were frustrated by the Royal Academy of Arts, the elitist attitude one took regarding the membership and their own preferred artist. To ensure that the company will play an important role in the art world, you chose the most important portraitists of the time - George Frederick Watts, James McNeill Whistler and John Everett Millais - to members. Their works were then to be seen on the first exhibition in 1891.

The annual exhibitions were held at different places - during the First World War, even in the rooms of the Royal Academy - and blanketed the high society of the time. Well-known as a portrait painter Hubert von Herkomer, William Nicholson, Augustus John, George Clausen and Laura Knight were called repeatedly in exhibitions. Jebusa James Shannon, the third President of the Society, was able to announce at a dinner on the occasion of the Coronation Exhibition on the 20th anniversary in 1911 that King George V of the Company have awarded the Royal Charter, so that they do from now on Royal Society of Portrait Painters should call.

Although the portrait was sometimes scorned as an art form in recent times, the Society of the attention of the audience could be sure. In 1984, Queen Elizabeth II took over even the patronage of the society. In the late 1980s, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in a registered society and a registered charitable society was transformed. With an historical exhibition of works by their members, the company celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1991.

Well-known artists

John Collier (artist) William Nicholson (artist) James Jebusa Shannon Hesketh Hubbard Art Society New English Art Club Royal Institute of Oil Painters Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Royal Society of British Artists Royal Society of Marine Artists Society of Wildlife Artists The Pastel Society Integrated Authority File
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