The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly in London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.
Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It had a population of 25,328 in the 2011 census, rising to 28,416 in the 2021 census, an increase of 12.19%. This makes Bushey the second most populated town in Hertsmere. Bushey Heath is a large neighbourhood south east of Bushey on the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow reaching elevations of 165 metres (541 ft) above sea level.
Edward John Gregory, PPRBSA, was a British painter.
Sir Hubert von Herkomer was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. Though a very successful portrait artist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor. Hard Times showing the distraught family of a travelling day-labourer at the side of a road, is one of his best-known works.
Sir William Blake RichmondPPRBSA was a British painter, sculptor and a designer of stained glass and mosaic. He is best known for his portrait work and decorative mosaics in St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Anne Redpath (1895–1965) was a Scottish artist whose vivid domestic still lifes are among her best-known works.
Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch was a British artist and teacher who specialized in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, from the late 1890s to the mid-1920s she was one of the country's best-known female artists. As her obituary in The Times noted, 'Like most artists who came to maturity and were established before the end of the nineteenth century, Lucy Kemp-Welch suffered somewhat in her later reputation from the violent changes in art which followed. In her prime as an animal painter she held a position in this country comparable to that of Rosa Bonheur in France, and the only British woman artist of her generation who was more talked about was Lady Elizabeth Butler, painter of "The Roll Call".' Her reputation has since revived, and she is best known today for her large paintings of wild and working horses in the New Forest, and those in military service which she produced during the First World War, as well as for her illustrations to the 1915 edition of Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty.
Algernon Mayow Talmage was a British Impressionist painter.
George Frederick Arthur Belcher was an English cartoonist, etcher and painter of genre, sporting subjects and still life.
Sir John Alfred Arnesby Brown was an English footballer and landscape artist who came to be known as "one of the leading British landscape artists of the 20th century". He played in The Football League for Notts County, his only appearance coming in a heavy 9–1 defeat to Aston Villa in September 1888. As a landscape artist, he was best known for his impressionistic depictions of pastoral landscapes, often featuring cattle; for his achievements in this field, he was knighted in 1938.
Mary Annie Sloane was an English artist associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
Harry Fidler (1856–1935) was a British painter known for including farm animals and especially horses in his impressionistic paintings, typically using heavy impasto. He married Laura Clunas, who was an artist with a similar style.
Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt (1861-1932) was a German-American artist from Ohio who made a career for himself in England as a portrait painter, lithographer, and engraver.
Mia Arnesby Brown, née Mia Edwards (1867–1931) was a Welsh painter. She was particularly noted for her portraits of children.
Teresa Norah Copnall, was a British painter known for her flower studies and portrait painting.
Elizabeth Gulland was a Scottish-born printmaker and painter.
Esther Harriet Borough Johnson née George (1866–1958) was an English painter.
Edith Mary Kemp-Welch (1870–1941) was a British artist, known as a portrait painter.
Robert Buhler RA was a Swiss landscape and portrait artist who was born in England, where he mostly worked.
Lucy Marguerite Frobisher (1890–1974) was a British artist and educator, who was the director of the Frobisher School of Painting, and specialised in animal painting. One of her best known works is Apple blossom in the Garden at Kingsley, Bushey.
