List of Royal Academicians
This is a list of notable Royal Academicians (RAs), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections.

List of Royal Academicians

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Table Section Text: This is a list of notable Royal Academicians (RAs), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections.

Name	Elected	Notes

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 1782-1786

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 1806–1837

J. M. W. Turner	1802	Professor of Perspective 1807-1837

Henry Thomson	1804	Keeper 1825–27

William Owen	1806

Samuel Woodforde	1807

Henry Howard	1808	Secretary 1811-1847; Professor of Painting 1833-1847

Thomas Phillips	1808	Professor of Painting 1825–1832

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 1827-1839

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 1847-1852

Henry William Pickersgill	1826	Librarian 1856-1864

William Wilkins	1826	Professor of Architecture 1837–39

William Etty	1828

John Constable	1829

Charles Lock Eastlake	1830	Librarian 1842-1844; President 1850–1865

Edwin Henry Landseer	1831

William Allan	1835

Clarkson Stanfield	1835

Charles Robert Cockerell	1836	Professor of Architecture 1839–1859

John Gibson	1836

John Peter Gandy	1838

Frederick Richard Lee	1838

Thomas Uwins	1838	Librarian 1844-1855

Daniel Maclise	1840

Solomon Alexander Hart	1840	Professor of Painting 1854–63; Librarian 1864–1881

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 1851-1873

John Rogers Herbert	1846

Charles West Cope	1848	Professor of Painting 1866-1875

William Dyce	1848

Richard Westmacott	1849	Professor of Sculpture 1857–1868

John Watson Gordon	1851

Francis Grant	1851	President 1866-1878

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 1887-1898

Thomas Sidney Cooper	1867

George Frederic Watts	1867

Frederic Leighton	1868	President 1878–96

Edward Middleton Barry	1869	Professor of Architecture 1873-1880; 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 1880-1881

Frederick Walker	1871

Edward Armitage	1872	Professor of Painting 1875-1882

Thomas Woolner	1874	Professor of Sculpture 1877-1878

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 1882-1895; Professor of Painting 1882-1895

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 1914-1919

Henry Scott Tuke	1914

John Arnesby Brown	1915

Charles Sims	1915	Keeper 1920-1926

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 1927-1942

Augustus John	1928

William Reid Dick	1928

Gerald Kelly	1930	Keeper 1943-1945; President 1949-1954

Sydney Lee	1930	Treasurer 1932-1940

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

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 1966-1976

Charles Wheeler	1940	President 1956-1966

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 - 1958

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

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

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

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

Michael Hopkins	1992

Brendan Neiland	1992	Keeper 1998–2004

Richard MacCormac	1993

Jennifer Durrant	1994

Nicholas Grimshaw	1994	President 2004–11

Christopher Orr	1995	Treasurer 2014-2018

Flavia Irwin	1996

Christopher Le Brun	1996	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 - 2002; President 2011-present

Patrick Procktor	1996

Barbara Rae	1996

Eva Jiřičná	1997

Stephen Farthing	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

Peter Cook	2003

Antony Gormley	2003

Ian McKeever	2003

Anthony Caro	2004

Humphrey Ocean	2004	Professor of Perspective 2012-Present

Frank Bowling	2005

Zaha Hadid	2005

Lisa Milroy	2005

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

Cornelia Parker	2009

Tess Jaray	2010

Mali Morris	2010

Phyllida Barlow	2011

Anne Desmet	2011

Grayson Perry	2011

Ron Arad	2012

Thomas Heatherwick	2013

Chantal Joffe	2013	Professor of Painting 2018-Present

Emma Stibbon	2013

Conrad Shawcross	2013

Louisa Hutton	2014

Cathie Pilkington	2014	Professor of Sculpture 2015-Present

Rebecca Warren	2014

Rebecca Salter	2014	Keeper 2017-Present

Brian Catling	2015

Farshid Moussavi	2015	Professor of Architecture 2017-Present

Vanessa Jackson	2015

Roger Zogolovitch	2015	Honorary Surveyor

Sonia Boyce	2016

David Adjaye	2017

Gilbert & George	2017

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Edward Armitage was one of the Royal Academicians.
Edward Armitage was a painter.

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