[DOC] [TLE] Royal Academy of Arts - Wikipedia [PAR] The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House 
on Piccadilly in London. ... The painter Joshua Reynolds was made its first 
president. ... The instrument of foundation, signed by George III on 10 December 
1768, .... Smith became secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy, a 
newly... [DOC] [TLE] Joshua Reynolds - Wikipedia [PAR] Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA was an influential eighteenth-century 
English painter, specialising in portraits. He promoted the "Grand Style" in 
painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and 
first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was ... Having left Hudson, 
Reynolds worked for some time as a portrait-painter in... [DOC] [TLE] Royal Academy of Arts Collections - Artist of the Month - June 2012 [PAR] Royal Academy of Arts, London ... Joshua Reynolds was unanimously elected 
the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts when it was founded in 1768. ... 
As well as these two large-scale paintings, a Reynolds self-portrait [3] and a 
portrait he made of ... (In the early years the King financed the Academy before it 
became... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The Royal Academy and its members 1768-1830" [PAR] 1-13 CHAPTER n THE FIRST PRESIDENT, SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS Early ..... 
his precocity ; portrait painting at Bath as a youth ; comes to London, and enters 
the Academy schools ; becomes the fashionable CONTENTS xvii portrait painter
... [DOC] [TLE] Royal Academy of Arts, London - Visual Arts Encyclopedia [PAR] Royal Academy of Arts, London: History, Membership, Summer Exhibition, ... in 
1768 and initially functioned as a school teaching drawing, painting, and 
sculpture ... the famous portrait artist Thomas Gainsborough, was experiencing a 
number of ... Reynolds, became its first President and was succeeded by 
Benjamin West. [DOC] [TLE] Sir Joshua Reynolds | British painter | Britannica.com [PAR] May 1, 2015 ... Portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the ... With 
the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first 
president and ... The young Reynolds became well read in the writings of 
classical ... Returning to London for two years in 1744, he began to acquire a... [DOC] [TLE] About the RA | Royal Academy of Arts [PAR] Who we are; Led by artists; Britain's first art school; Exhibitions; Summer ... There 
shall be an Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Designs, ... With the 
support of JTI, the RA and London Philharmonic Orchestra have ... Johan Zoffany
, The Portraits of the Academicians of the Royal Academy, .... artists since 1768. [DOC] [TLE] Royal Academicians | Royal Academy of Arts [PAR] All of the Royal Academicians (RAs) are practising artists who help steer our 
vision, ... be at least 14 Sculptors, 12 Architects and 8 Printmakers; the rest are all 
Painters. When an Academician reaches the age of 75, they become a Senior 
Academician. ... Our Presidents are always elected by their fellow Academicians. [DOC] [TLE] sir joshua reynolds - Plymouth Arts & Heritage [PAR] At the age of nineteen, he began to study painting with the London- ... and began 
to paint portraits of well-off local people and their ... In 1768, Reynolds became 
the first president of the Royal Academy (see page 6 for more information), and... [DOC] [TLE] Oxford DNB theme: Founders of the Royal Academy of Arts [PAR] The Royal Academy was modelled on its hierarchical, rigid Parisian counterpart 
... The academy's founding president was Sir Joshua Reynolds. .... while 
Giuseppe Baretti became the first secretary for foreign correspondence, an office 
... about 1768 was fast becoming one of London's most fashionable portrait 
painters, was... [DOC] [TLE] Royal Academy, Victorian Art History [PAR] Reynolds, the great portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy, ... he 
established himself in London, and was one of the first members of the ... When 
the Royal Academy was set up in 1768, Reynolds was appointed

Question: In 1768 this portrait painter became the first president of London's Royal Academy
Answer: Joshua Reynolds