This is a partial list of Royal Academicians (post-nominal: RA), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections. [1]
Name | Elected | Notes | Ref. |
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John Baker | 1768 | Foundation member | |
George Barret | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Francesco Bartolozzi | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Agostino Carlini | 1768 | Foundation member; Keeper 1783–90 | |
Charles Catton | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Mason Chamberlin | 1768 | Foundation member | |
William Chambers | 1768 | Foundation member; first Treasurer 1768–96 | |
Giovanni Battista Cipriani | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Francis Cotes | 1768 | Foundation member | |
George Dance the Younger | 1768 | Foundation member; Professor of Architecture 1798–1805 | |
Nathaniel Dance-Holland | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Thomas Gainsborough | 1768 | Foundation member | |
John Gwynn | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Francis Hayman | 1768 | Foundation member; first Academy librarian 1770–1776 | |
Nathaniel Hone | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Angelica Kauffman | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Jeremiah Meyer | 1768 | Foundation member | |
George Michael Moser | 1768 | Foundation member; first Keeper 1768–83 | |
Mary Moser | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Francis Milner Newton | 1768 | Foundation member; first Secretary 1768–88 | |
Edward Penny | 1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Painting 1768–82 | |
Joshua Reynolds | 1768 | Foundation member; President 1768–1792 | |
John Inigo Richards | 1768 | Foundation member; Secretary 1788–1810 | |
Paul Sandby | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Thomas Sandby | 1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Architecture 1768–98 | |
Dominic Serres | 1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1792–93 | |
Peter Toms | 1768 | Foundation member | |
William Tyler | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Samuel Wale | 1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Perspective 1768–1786; Librarian 1782–86 | |
Benjamin West | 1768 | Foundation member; President 1792–1805 & 1806–20 | |
Richard Wilson | 1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1776–1782 | |
Joseph Wilton | 1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1786–1790; Keeper 1790–1803 | |
Richard Yeo | 1768 | Foundation member | |
Francesco Zuccarelli | 1768 | Foundation member | |
William Hoare | 1769 | Nominated member | |
Johann Zoffany | 1769 | Nominated member | |
Edward Burch | 1771 | Librarian 1794–1814 | |
Richard Cosway | 1771 | ||
Joseph Nollekens | 1772 | ||
James Barry | 1773 | Professor of Painting 1782–1799 | |
Matthew William Peters | 1777 | Honorary Chaplain 1784–1788 | |
John Singleton Copley | 1779 | ||
John Bacon | 1778 | ||
Philip James de Loutherbourg | 1781 | ||
George Stubbs | 1781 | ||
Edmund Garvey | 1783 | ||
John Francis Rigaud | 1784 | ||
Thomas Banks | 1785 | ||
Joseph Farington | 1785 | ||
James Wyatt | 1785 | President 1805–1806 | |
William Hodges | 1787 | ||
James Northcote | 1787 | ||
John Opie | 1788 | Professor of Painting 1805–1807 | |
John Russell | 1788 | ||
William Hamilton | 1789 | ||
Henry Fuseli | 1790 | Professor of Painting 1799–1805 & 1810–25; Keeper 1804–1825 | |
Ozias Humphrey | 1791 | ||
Francis Wheatley | 1791 | ||
John Yenn | 1791 | Treasurer 1796–1820 | |
John Webber | 1791 | ||
Francis Bourgeois | 1793 | ||
Robert Smirke | 1793 | ||
Thomas Lawrence | 1794 | President 1820–30 | |
Richard Westall | 1794 | ||
Thomas Stothard | 1794 | Librarian 1814–1834 | |
John Hoppner | 1795 | ||
Sawrey Gilpin | 1797 | ||
William Beechey | 1798 | Associate RA: 1793 | |
Thomas Daniell | 1799 | ||
Henry Tresham | 1799 | Professor of Painting 1807–1809 | |
John Flaxman | 1800 | first Professor of Sculpture 1810–26 | |
Martin Archer Shee | 1800 | President 1830–50 | |
John Soane | 1802 | Professor of Architecture 1806–37 | |
J. M. W. Turner | 1802 | Professor of Perspective 1807–37 | |
Henry Thomson | 1804 | Keeper 1825–27 | |
William Owen | 1806 | ||
Samuel Woodforde | 1807 | ||
Henry Howard | 1808 | Secretary 1811–47; Professor of Painting 1833–1847 | |
Thomas Phillips | 1808 | Professor of Painting 1825–32 | |
Augustus Wall Callcott | 1810 | ||
Henry Bone | 1811 | ||
James Ward | 1811 | ||
David Wilkie | 1811 | ||
Richard Westmacott | 1811 | Professor of Sculpture 1827–56 | |
Robert Smirke | 1811 | Treasurer 1820–50 | |
Philip Reinagle | 1812 | ||
William Theed | 1813 | ||
George Dawe | 1814 | ||
Edward Bird | 1815 | ||
Henry Raeburn | 1815 | ||
Alfred Edward Chalon | 1816 | ||
John Jackson | 1817 | ||
Francis Leggatt Chantrey | 1818 | ||
William Hilton | 1819 | Keeper 1827–39 | |
William Collins | 1820 | Librarian 1840–42 | |
Abraham Cooper | 1820 | ||
Edward Hodges Baily | 1821 | ||
Richard Cook | 1822 | ||
William Daniell | 1822 | ||
Ramsay Richard Reinagle | 1823 | ||
George Jones | 1824 | Librarian 1834–1840; Keeper 1840–50 | |
Jeffry Wyatville | 1824 | ||
Charles Robert Leslie | 1826 | Professor of Painting 1847–52 | |
Henry William Pickersgill | 1826 | Librarian 1856–64 | |
William Wilkins | 1826 | Professor of Architecture 1837–39 | |
William Etty | 1828 | ||
John Constable | 1829 | ||
Charles Lock Eastlake | 1830 | Librarian 1842–44; President 1850–65 | |
Edwin Henry Landseer | 1831 | ||
William Allan | 1835 | ||
Clarkson Stanfield | 1835 | ||
Charles Robert Cockerell | 1836 | Professor of Architecture 1839–59 | |
John Gibson | 1836 | ||
John Peter Gandy | 1838 | ||
Frederick Richard Lee | 1838 | ||
Thomas Uwins | 1838 | Librarian 1844–55 | |
Daniel Maclise | 1840 | ||
Solomon Alexander Hart | 1840 | Professor of Painting 1854–63; Librarian 1864–81 | |
William Frederick Witherington | 1840 | ||
John James Chalon | 1841 | ||
Philip Hardwick | 1841 | Treasurer 1850–61 | |
David Roberts | 1841 | ||
Charles Barry | 1842 | ||
William Charles Ross | 1843 | ||
John Prescott Knight | 1844 | Secretary 1847–1873; Professor of Perspective 1852–1860 | |
Charles Landseer | 1845 | Keeper 1851–73 | |
John Rogers Herbert | 1846 | ||
Charles West Cope | 1848 | Professor of Painting 1866–75 | |
William Dyce | 1848 | ||
Richard Westmacott | 1849 | Professor of Sculpture 1857–68 | |
John Watson Gordon | 1851 | ||
Francis Grant | 1851 | President 1866–78 | |
Richard Redgrave | 1851 | ||
William Powell Frith | 1853 | ||
Samuel Cousins | 1855 | ||
Frederick Richard Pickersgill | 1857 | Keeper 1873–1887 | |
John Henry Foley | 1858 | ||
Sydney Smirke | 1859 | Treasurer 1861–1874; Professor of Architecture 1860–1865 | |
Augustus Egg | 1860 | ||
George Gilbert Scott | 1860 | Professor of Architecture 1866–1873 | |
Edward William Cooke | 1863 | ||
William Boxall | 1863 | ||
John Everett Millais | 1863 | President 1896 | |
Henry Weekes | 1863 | Professor of Sculpture 1868–76 | |
John Callcott Horsley | 1864 | Treasurer 1882–1897 | |
Carlo Marochetti | 1866 | ||
George Richmond | 1866 | ||
Philip Hermogenes Calderon | 1867 | Keeper 1887–98 | |
Thomas Sidney Cooper | 1867 | ||
George Frederic Watts | 1867 | ||
Frederic Leighton | 1868 | President 1878–96 | |
Edward Middleton Barry | 1869 | Professor of Architecture 1873–80; Treasurer 1874–80 | |
James Sant | 1869 | ||
Richard Ansdell | 1870 | ||
William Charles Thomas Dobson | 1871 | ||
Lumb Stocks | 1871 | ||
George Edmund Street | 1871 | Professor of Architecture 1880–81; Treasurer 1880–81 | |
Frederick Walker | 1871 | ||
Edward Armitage | 1872 | Professor of Painting 1875–82 | |
Thomas Woolner | 1874 | Professor of Sculpture 1877–78 | |
John Gilbert | 1876 | ||
Edward Poynter | 1876 | President 1896–1918 | |
William Quiller Orchardson | 1877 | ||
Richard Norman Shaw | 1877 | Treasurer 1882 | |
Henry Stacy Marks | 1878 | ||
William Frederick Yeames | 1878 | Librarian 1896–1911 | |
Lawrence Alma-Tadema | 1879 | ||
John Evan Hodgson | 1879 | Librarian 1882–95; Professor of Painting 1882–95 | |
George Vicat Cole | 1880 | ||
Henry Hugh Armstead | 1880 | ||
John Loughborough Pearson | 1880 | ||
William Burges | 1881 | ||
Edwin Long | 1881 | ||
Walter William Ouless | 1881 | ||
Joseph Edgar Boehm | 1882 | ||
Briton Rivière | 1881 | ||
Frank Holl | 1883 | ||
Alfred Waterhouse | 1885 | Treasurer 1897–1901 | |
Luke Fildes | 1887 | ||
Marcus Stone | 1887 | ||
Hamo Thornycroft | 1888 | ||
Hubert von Herkomer | 1890 | Professor of Painting 1899–1900 & 1906–1909 | |
Thomas Brock | 1891 | ||
Frank Dicksee | 1891 | President 1924–1928 | |
Andrew Carrick Gow | 1891 | Keeper 1911–1920; Librarian 1911–1920 | |
Alfred Gilbert | 1892 | Professor of Sculpture 1900–1904 | |
Val Prinsep | 1894 | Professor of Painting 1900–1903 | |
Edward Onslow Ford | 1895 | ||
William Blake Richmond | 1895 | Professor of Painting 1895–1899 & 1909–1911 | |
John William Waterhouse | 1895 | ||
Ernest Crofts | 1896 | Keeper 1898–1911 | |
Thomas Graham Jackson | 1896 | Treasurer 1901–1912 | |
John Singer Sargent | 1897 | ||
George Frederic Watts | 1897 | ||
Edwin Austin Abbey | 1898 | ||
George Aitchison | 1898 | Professor of Architecture 1887–1905 | |
Benjamin Williams Leader | 1898 | ||
George Frederick Bodley | 1902 | ||
George Frampton | 1902 | ||
Aston Webb | 1903 | Treasurer 1912–1919; President 1919–24 | |
Robert Walker Macbeth | 1903 | ||
David Murray | 1905 | ||
George Clausen | 1908 | Professor of Painting 1903–1906 | |
William Lionel Wyllie | 1907 | ||
John Belcher | 1909 | ||
Goscombe John | 1909 | ||
James Jebusa Shannon | 1909 | ||
Arthur Stockdale Cope | 1910 | ||
Charles Napier Hemy | 1910 | ||
Frank Bramley | 1911 | ||
Henry Herbert La Thangue | 1912 | ||
Reginald Blomfield | 1914 | Professor of Architecture 1907–11 | |
Alfred East | 1913 | ||
G.A. Storey | 1914 | Professor of Perspective 1914–19 | |
Henry Scott Tuke | 1914 | ||
John Arnesby Brown | 1915 | ||
Charles Sims | 1915 | Keeper 1920–26 | |
Ernest George | 1917 | ||
William Robert Colton | 1917 | Professor of Sculpture 1907–1911 | |
Frank Brangwyn | 1919 | ||
Ernest Newton | 1919 | ||
William Orpen | 1919 | ||
Adrian Scott Stokes | 1919 | ||
David Young Cameron | 1920 | ||
William Llewellyn | 1920 | President 1928–1938 | |
Charles Haslewood Shannon | 1920 | ||
Edwin Landseer Lutyens | 1920 | President 1938–1944 | |
Robert Anning Bell | 1922 | ||
Giles Gilbert Scott | 1922 | ||
Terrick Williams | 1924 | ||
Philip Connard | 1925 | Keeper 1945–1949 | |
John James Burnet | 1925 | ||
Alfred Munnings | 1925 | President 1944–1949 | |
Walter Westley Russell | 1926 | Keeper 1927–42 | |
Augustus John | 1928 | ||
William Reid Dick | 1928 | ||
Gerald Kelly | 1930 | Keeper 1943–1945; President 1949–1954 | |
Sydney Lee | 1930 | Treasurer 1932–40 | |
Herbert Baker | 1932 | ||
George Spencer Watson | 1932 | ||
Wilfrid de Glehn | 1932 | ||
Henry Macbeth-Raeburn | 1933 | Associate RA: 1922 | |
William Russell Flint | 1933 | ||
William Curtis Green | 1933 | ||
Frank Short | 1933 | Treasurer 1919–32 | |
Lamorna Birch | 1934 | ||
Frank Cadogan Cowper | 1934 | ||
Walter Sickert | 1934 | ||
Francis Dodd | 1935 | ||
Guy Dawber | 1935 | ||
Laura Knight | 1936 | ||
Henry Rushbury | 1936 | Keeper 1949–1964 | |
Harold Knight | 1937 | ||
Edwin Cooper | 1937 | Treasurer 1940–42 | |
Frederick William Elwell | 1938 | ||
Walter Thomas Monnington | 1938 | President 1966–76 | |
Charles Wheeler | 1940 | President 1956–66 | |
James Bateman | 1942 | ||
Meredith Frampton | 1942 | ||
Vincent Harris | 1942 | Treasurer 1942–54 | |
Arthur Joseph Davis | 1942 | ||
Thomas Cantrell Dugdale | 1943 | ||
Algernon Newton | 1943 | ||
Albert Richardson | 1944 | Professor of Architecture 1946–61; President 1954–56 | |
Charles Cundall | 1944 | ||
Edward Maufe | 1947 | Treasurer 1954–58 | |
Winston Churchill | 1948 | Honorary Academician Extraordinary | |
Henry Lamb | 1949 | ||
Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd | 1949 | ||
Stanley Spencer | 1950 | ||
John Nash | 1951 | ||
Arnold Mason | 1951 | ||
Steven Spurrier | 1952 | ||
Frank Dobson | 1953 | ||
Louis de Soissons | 1953 | Treasurer 1958–1962 | |
Richard Eurich | 1953 | ||
William Dring | 1955 | ||
Hubert Worthington | 1955 | ||
Howard Robertson | 1958 | ||
Peter Greenham | 1960 | Keeper 1964–1985 | |
Basil Spence | 1960 | Professor of Architecture 1961–1967; Treasurer 1962–1964 | |
Herbert James Gunn | 1961 | Treasurer 1964 | |
Norman Hepple | 1961 | ||
Rodney Joseph Burn | 1962 | ||
L.S. Lowry | 1962 | ||
Donald McMorran | 1962 | Treasurer 1965 | |
John Aldridge | 1963 | ||
Marshall Sisson | 1963 | Treasurer 1965–70 | |
Raymond Erith | 1964 | ||
Andrew Freeth | 1965 | Uncle of Peter Freeth | |
Carel Weight | 1965 | ||
Henry Carr | 1966 | ||
William Roberts | 1966 | ||
Raymond Teague Cowern | 1968 | ||
Charles Mahoney | 1968 | ||
Eric Schilsky | 1968 | ||
William Holford | 1968 | Treasurer 1970–1975 | |
Roger de Grey | 1969 | Treasurer 1976–1984; President 1984–1993 | |
Frederick Gibberd | 1969 | ||
Leonard Rosoman | 1969 | ||
Willi Soukop | 1969 | ||
Hugh Casson | 1970 | Treasurer 1975–1976; President 1976–1984 | |
Edward Ardizzone | 1970 | ||
Colin Hayes | 1970 | ||
John Bratby | 1971 | ||
Gertrude Hermes | 1971 | ||
Norman Adams | 1972 | Keeper 1986–1995; Professor of Painting 1986 & 1995–1999 | |
Ralph Brown | 1972 | ||
Jean Cooke | 1972 | ||
Maxwell Fry | 1972 | Professor of Architecture 1967–1975 | |
Frederick Gore | 1972 | ||
Edward Wolfe | 1972 | ||
William MacTaggart | 1973 | ||
Edward Middleditch | 1973 | Keeper 1985–1986 | |
Fred Cuming | 1974 | ||
Bryan Kneale | 1974 | Professor of Sculpture 1985–1989 | |
Kyffin Williams | 1974 | ||
Olwyn Bowey | 1975 | ||
Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown | 1975 | Professor of Architecture 1975–88 | |
Ernő Goldfinger | 1975 | ||
Elizabeth Blackadder | 1976 | ||
Jennifer Dickson | 1976 | ||
Elisabeth Frink | 1977 | ||
Anthony Green | 1977 | ||
Philip Powell | 1977 | Treasurer 1985–1995 | |
Sandra Blow | 1978 | ||
Leonard Manasseh | 1979 | ||
Eduardo Paolozzi | 1979 | ||
David Tindle | 1979 | ||
Peter Blake | 1981 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2002–2004 | |
William Bowyer | 1981 | ||
Sonia Lawson | 1982 | ||
Tom Phillips | 1984 | ||
Trevor Dannatt | 1983 | Professor of Architecture 1988–1995 | |
Michael Rothenstein | 1983 | ||
Richard Rogers | 1984 | ||
Philip Dowson | 1985 | President 1993–1999 | |
Donald Hamilton Fraser | 1985 | ||
Leslie Martin | 1985 | ||
Ove Arup | 1986 | ||
Allen Jones | 1986 | ||
Michael Kenny | 1986 | Treasurer 1995–1999 | |
Morris Kestelman | 1986 | ||
Norman Ackroyd | 1988 | ||
Eileen Agar | 1988 | ||
Craigie Aitchison | 1988 | ||
Phillip King | 1988 | Professor of Sculpture 1989–1999; President 1999–2004 | |
Ann Christopher | 1989 | ||
Lawrence Gowing | 1989 | Honorary Curator 1985–1991 | |
Berthold Lubetkin | 1989 | ||
Michael Sandle | 1989 | ||
Anthony Whishaw | 1989 | ||
Theo Crosby | 1990 | ||
Ivor Abrahams | 1991 | Professor of Sculpture 2007–2010 | |
Norman Ackroyd | 1991 | Professor of Printmaking | |
Diana Armfield | 1991 | ||
Gillian Ayres | 1991 | ||
John Bellany | 1991 | ||
Edward Cullinan | 1991 | ||
Kenneth Draper | 1991 | ||
Peter Freeth | 26 June 1991 | Elected ARA: 30 May 1990 Nephew of Andrew Freeth | [2] |
Norman Foster | 1991 | ||
Paul Huxley | 1991 | Treasurer 2000–2014 | |
David Hockney | 1991 | ||
Ken Howard | 1991 | Professor of Perspective 2004–2012 | |
John Hoyland | 1991 | Professor of Painting 1999–2010 | |
Bill Jacklin | 1991 | ||
Geoffrey Jellicoe | 1991 | ||
R. B. Kitaj | 1991 | ||
Paul Koralek | 1991 | ||
Denys Lasdun | 1991 | ||
Leonard McComb | 1991 | Keeper 1995–98 | |
Dhruva Mistry | 1991 | ||
Sidney Nolan | 1991 | ||
James Stirling | 1991 | ||
Joe Tilson | 1991 | ||
Colin St John Wilson | 1991 | ||
Terry Frost | 1992 | ||
Gus Cummins | 1992 | ||
William Tucker | 1992 | ||
Michael Hopkins | 1992 | ||
Brendan Neiland | 1992 | Keeper 1998–2004 | |
Richard MacCormac | 1993 | ||
Jennifer Durrant | 1994 | ||
Mick Moon | 1994 | ||
Tony Cragg | 1994 | ||
Nicholas Grimshaw | 1994 | President 2004–11 | |
Christopher Orr | 1995 | Treasurer 2014–2018 | |
John Maine | 1995 | ||
Flavia Irwin | 1996 | ||
Christopher Le Brun | 1996 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 – 2002; President 2011–2019 | |
Patrick Procktor | 1996 | ||
Barbara Rae | 1996 | ||
Eva Jiřičná | 1997 | ||
Albert Irvin | 1998 | Elected Senior RA: 10 December 1998 | |
Stephen Farthing | 1998 | ||
Richard Deacon | 1998 | ||
David Mach | 1998 | Professor of Sculpture 2000–2007 | |
Ian Ritchie | 1998 | Professor of Architecture 2004–2012 | |
Anish Kapoor | 1999 | ||
Alison Wilding | 1999 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2018–Present | |
Maurice Cockrill | 1999 | Keeper 2004–2011 | |
David Nash | 1999 | ||
Will Alsop | 2000 | ||
Gordon Benson | 2000 | ||
Lynn Chadwick | 2001 | ||
Eileen Cooper | 2001 | First female Keeper, 2011 – 2017 | |
Piers Gough | 2001 | Professor of Architecture 2013–2017 | |
Gary Hume | 2001 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2004–2006 | |
Richard Long | 2001 | ||
Fiona Rae | 2002 | Professor of Painting 2011–2015 | |
Bill Woodrow | 2002 | Professor of Painting 2011–2015 | |
Peter Cook | 2003 | ||
Antony Gormley | 2003 | ||
Nigel Hall | 2003 | ||
Ian McKeever | 2003 | ||
Anthony Caro | 2004 | ||
Humphrey Ocean | 2004 | Professor of Perspective 2012–2020 | |
Frank Bowling | 2005 | ||
Zaha Hadid | 2005 | ||
Lisa Milroy | 2005 | ||
Stephen Chambers | 2005 | ||
Eric Parry | 2006 | ||
Basil Beattie | 2006 | ||
Michael Craig-Martin | 2006 | ||
David Remfry | 2006 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2016–18 | |
Chris Wilkinson | 2006 | Treasurer 2018–Present | |
Richard Wilson | 2006 | Professor of Sculpture 2011–15 | |
David Chipperfield | 2007 | ||
Tracey Emin | 2007 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2011–13 | |
Tony Bevan | 2007 | ||
John Carter | 2007 | ||
Jenny Saville | 2007 | ||
Gillian Wearing | 2007 | ||
Spencer de Grey | 2008 | ||
Tacita Dean | 2008 | ||
Michael Landy | 2008 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2014–16 | |
Terry Setch | 2009 | ||
Hughie O'Donoghue | 2009 | ||
Alan Stanton | 2009 | ||
Cornelia Parker | 2009 | ||
Tess Jaray | 2010 | ||
Mali Morris | 2010 | Professor of Painting 2019–2020 | |
Stephen Cox | 2010 | ||
Timothy Hyman | 2011 | ||
Phyllida Barlow | 2011 | ||
Anne Desmet | 2011 | ||
Grayson Perry | 2011 | ||
Ron Arad | 2012 | ||
Sean Scully | 2012 | ||
Jock McFadyen | 2012 | ||
Thomas Heatherwick | 2013 | ||
Chantal Joffe | 2013 | Professor of Painting 2018–2019 | |
Mike Nelson | 2013 | Professor of Sculpture 2019–Present | |
Emma Stibbon | 2013 | ||
Conrad Shawcross | 2013 | ||
Yinka Shonibare | 2013 | ||
Tim Shaw | 2013 | ||
Neil Jeffries | 2013 | ||
Bob and Roberta Smith | 2013 | ||
Wolfgang Tillmans | 2013 | ||
Louisa Hutton | 2014 | ||
Cathie Pilkington | 2014 | Professor of Sculpture 2015–2019; Keeper 2020-Present | |
Rebecca Warren | 2014 | ||
Eva Rothschild | 2014 | ||
Rose Wylie | 2014 | ||
Rebecca Salter | 2014 | Keeper 2017–2019; President 2019–Present | |
Brian Catling | 2015 | ||
Farshid Moussavi | 2015 | Professor of Architecture 2017–Present | |
Peter Randall-Page | 2015 | ||
Vanessa Jackson | 2015 | ||
Roger Zogolovitch | 2015 | Honorary Surveyor | |
Paula Rego | 2016 | ||
Sonia Boyce | 2016 | ||
David Adjaye | 2017 | ||
Fiona Banner | 2017 | Professor of Perspective 2020–Present | |
Isaac Julien | 2017 | ||
Gilbert & George | 2017 | Left the RA in 2020 [3] | |
Jane and Louise Wilson | 2018 | ||
Lubaina Himid | 2018 | Professor of Painting 2020–Present | |
Adam Caruso and Peter St John | 2018 | ||
Níall McLaughlin | 2019 | ||
John Akomfrah | 2019 | ||
Rana Begum | 2019 | ||
Amanda Levete | 2021 | ||
Ryan Gander | 2021 | ||
Peter Barber | 2021 | ||
Michael Armitage | 2021 | ||
Hew Locke | 2022 | ||
Katherine Jones | 2022 | ||
Assemble | 2022 | ||
Clare Woods | 2022 | ||
Shirazeh Houshiary | 2022 | ||
Brian Griffiths | 2022 | ||
Veronica Ryan | 2022 | ||
Barbara Walker | 2022 | ||
Roger Hiorns | 2022 | ||
Hurvin Anderson | 28 March 2023 | [4] | |
Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson (6a architects) | 28 March 2023 | [5] | |
Nigel Coates | 31 May 2023 | [6] | |
Elsie Owusu | 31 May 2023 | [7] | |
Oona Grimes | 14 December 2023 | [8] | |
Goshka Macuga | 14 December 2023 | [9] | |
Claudette Johnson | 19 March 2024 | [10] | |
Helen Sear | 19 March 2024 | [11] | |
Sikelela Owen | 6 June 2024 | [12] | |
Caragh Thuring | 6 June 2024 | [13] |
This is a partial list of Honorary Royal Academicians (Post-nominal: HonRA), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections. [1]
Name | Elected HonRA | Preferred Media | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Louis Gallait | 15 December 1869 | Painting | [14] | |
Jean-Léon Gérôme | 15 December 1869 | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking | [15] | |
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume | 15 December 1869 | Sculpture | [16] | |
Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont | 15 December 1869 | Painting and Printmaking | [17] | |
Ernest Meissonier | 15 December 1869 | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking | [18] | |
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc | 15 December 1869 | Architecture | [19] | |
Ludwig Knaus | 29 December 1882 | Painting | [20] | |
Adolph Menzel | 12 February 1896 | Painting, Printmaking, and Illustration | [21] | |
Jules Breton | 31 January 1899 | Painting | [22] | |
Léon Bonnat | 27 January 1904 | Painting | [23] | |
Emmanuel Frémiet | 27 January 1904 | Sculpture | [24] | |
Jozef Israëls | 9 January 1906 | Painting and Printmaking | [25] | |
Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 9 January 1906 | Sculpture | [26] | |
Antonin Mercié | 23 January 1908 | Sculpture and Painting | [27] | |
Jean-Paul Laurens | 27 January 1909 | Painting | [28] | |
Albert Bartholomé | 1 March 1921 | Sculpture and Painting | [29] | |
Paul-Albert Besnard | 1 March 1921 | Painting | [30] | |
Ragnar Östberg | 10 June 1930 | Architecture | [31] | |
Cass Gilbert | 5 December 1930 | Architecture | [32] | |
Lucien Simon | 5 December 1930 | Painting | [33] | |
Pierre Bonnard | 26 April 1940 | Painting, Printmaking, and Lithography | [34] | |
Carl Milles | 26 April 1940 | Sculpture | [35] | |
André Dunoyer de Segonzac | 24 April 1947 | Painting, Book illustration, and Printmaking | [36] | |
Ivar Tengbom | 24 April 1947 | Architecture | [37] | |
Walter Gropius | 20 April 1967 | Architecture | [38] | |
Oskar Kokoschka | 24 April 1970 | Painting | [39] | |
Giacomo Manzù | 24 April 1970 | Sculpture and Painting | ||
Marc Chagall | 9 May 1979 | Painting | ||
Joan Miró | 22 May 1980 | Painting and Sculpture | ||
Josep Lluís Sert | 22 May 1980 | Architecture | [40] | |
Balthus | 17 December 1981 | Painting | ||
Stanley William Hayter | 17 December 1981 | Printmaking, Etching, Line engraving, and Painting | ||
Eduardo Chillida | 18 May 1983 | Sculpture | ||
Willem de Kooning | 18 May 1983 | Painting | ||
Jean Dubuffet | 17 January 1985 | Painting | ||
Ralph Erskine (architect) | 17 January 1985 | Architecture and Town-planning | ||
Rufino Tamayo | 20 May 1985 | Painting | [41] | |
Jørn Utzon | 20 May 1985 | Architecture | ||
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas | 11 December 1986 | Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Theatre design, and Book illustration | [42] | |
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | 4 May 1988 | Painting | ||
Jasper Johns | 7 December 1989 | Painting and Printmaking | ||
Richard Diebenkorn | 27 May 1992 | Painting | ||
Antoni Tàpies | 27 May 1992 | Painting | ||
I. M. Pei | 10 December 1993 | Architecture | ||
Frank Stella | 10 December 1993 | Painting | ||
Roy Lichtenstein | 23 May 1994 | Painting | ||
Arata Isozaki | 23 May 1994 | Architecture | ||
Richard Serra | 22 May 1995 | Sculpture | ||
Anselm Kiefer | 29 May 1996 | Painting, Sculpture, Installation art, and Artists' books | ||
Andrew Wyeth | 29 May 1996 | Painting | ||
Roberto Matta | 19 May 1997 | [43] | ||
Frank Gehry | 21 May 1998 | Architecture | ||
Cy Twombly | 21 May 1998 | Painting | ||
Mimmo Paladino | 26 May 1999 | Sculpture, Painting, and Printmaking | ||
Georg Baselitz | 26 May 1999 | Painting and Sculpture | ||
Robert Rauschenberg | 18 May 2000 | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking | ||
Ellsworth Kelly | 24 May 2001 | |||
Bruce Nauman | 24 May 2001 | Sculpture, Photography, Video art, Drawing, Printmaking, and Performance | ||
Tadao Ando | 29 May 2002 | Architecture | ||
James Turrell | 29 May 2002 | Sculpture and Installation art | ||
Daniel Libeskind | 23 May 2003 | Architecture | ||
Edward Ruscha | 26 May 2004 | Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Drawing, Film making, and Artists' books | ||
Renzo Piano | 31 May 2007 | Architecture | ||
Rebecca Horn | 10 March 2009 | Sculpture, Installation art, Performance, and Film making | ||
Julian Schnabel | 8 December 2009 | Painting and Film making | ||
Jeff Koons | 16 March 2010 | Painting and Sculpture | ||
Cindy Sherman | 16 March 2010 | Photography | ||
Ai Weiwei | 26 May 2011 | Sculpture, Installation art, Architecture, and Film making | ||
Per Kirkeby | 28 May 2011 | Painting and Sculpture | ||
Marina Abramović | 27 September 2011 | Performance | ||
Helen Frankenthaler | 27 September 2011 | |||
Rosemarie Trockel | 13 March 2013 | Sculpture and Painting | ||
Marlene Dumas | 13 March 2013 | Painting and Drawing | ||
Peter Zumthor | 12 March 2014 | Architecture | ||
El Anatsui | 12 March 2014 | Sculpture | ||
William Kentridge | 10 December 2014 | Sculpture, Film making, Graphic design, Engraving, and Animation | ||
Jim Dine | 10 December 2014 | Painting, Watercolour, Assemblage, Happenings, Lithography, Photography, Sculpture, and Performance art | ||
Olafur Eliasson | 9 March 2016 | Sculpture and Installation art | ||
Jenny Holzer | 9 March 2016 | Printmaking and Sculpture | ||
Bill Viola | 1 June 2017 | Installation art, Video art, and Film making | ||
Kiki Smith | 1 June 2017 | Sculpture, Printmaking, and Artists' books | ||
Wim Wenders | 19 March 2018 | Film making and Photography | ||
Laurie Anderson | 19 March 2018 | Performance and Film making | ||
Carmen Herrera | 30 May 2019 | Painting | ||
Kara Walker | 30 May 2019 | Painting, Printmaking, Illustration, Film making, and Silhouettist | ||
Pipilotti Rist | 9 September 2021 | Video art and Installation art | ||
Ellen Gallagher | 9 September 2021 | Painting, Video art, and Film making | ||
Kerry James Marshall | 13 December 2022 | [44] | ||
Joan Jonas | 14 December 2023 | [45] | ||
Toyo Ito | 14 December 2023 | [46] |
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