[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 ... The painter Joshua Reynolds was made its first president. .... 
Sir Joshua Reynolds, gave his noted self-portrait, beginning the Royal Academy
... [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] Presidents of the Royal Academy - Group - National Portrait Gallery [PAR] Sir Joshua Reynolds was elected the Royal Academy of Art's first president in its 
founding year in 1768. ... Sitter in 18 portraits | Artist associated with 36 portraits. [DOC] [TLE] About the RA | Royal Academy of Arts [PAR] We are home to Britain's first art school, the RA Schools. ... There shall be an 
Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Designs, which shall be open to 
all... [DOC] [TLE] Royal Academy of Arts, London - Visual Arts Encyclopedia [PAR] Royal Academy of Arts, London: History, Membership, Summer Exhibition, ... as 
the famous portrait artist Thomas Gainsborough, was experiencing a number of ... 
Reynolds, became its first President and was succeeded by Benjamin West. [DOC] [TLE] Britain's Royal Academy of Art in the Late 1700s and Early 1800s [PAR] Opening in London in early May, the Royal Academy's summer exhibitions have 
... The fashionable portraitist George Romney refused to resign from another... [DOC] [TLE] Royal Academy of Arts Collections - Artist of the Month - June 2012 [PAR] [4] Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, Portrait of Sir William Chambers RA, oil on panel, 
... the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts when it was founded in 1768. [DOC] [TLE] Previous Artists of the Month - Royal Academy of Arts Collections [PAR] A gifted artist from an early age he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800. 
.... F. Ernest Jackson ARA, Portrait of Dorothy Hutton, pencil on wove paper. Artist 
... the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts when it was founded in 1768. [DOC] [TLE] The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles | Art and design ... [PAR] Jan 4, 2013 ... The Royal Academy's first annual exhibition in 1769 (entrance charge ... and 
frock-coated artist is a knight of the realm as well as a portraitist in action. ... of 
president are often treated by art historians as the artistic code of a... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The Royal Academy and its members 1768-1830" [PAR] ... ROYAL ACADEMY London in the eighteenth century ; early art in England ... 1-
13 CHAPTER n THE FIRST PRESIDENT, SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS Early life of 
.... Academy ; his portraits, and rank as a painter  William Mulready ; his early... [DOC] [TLE] The Royal Academy, Victorian Art History [PAR] In 1752, Reynolds, the future President of the Royal Academy, had returned from 
... The first idea of a public exhibition of pictures seems to have arisen from the 
...... The technique of the art -- and more one great portrait-painter practising in... [DOC] [TLE] The Salon and The Royal Academy in the Nineteenth Century ... [PAR] Academic art, whose standard was ancient classical art, the European tradition, 
and historical subjects ( ... rendered predominantly in painting and sculpture, 
retained sway through the ... showed consistently at the RA in the first half of the 
century. ... who would succeed Leighton as the tenth president of the RA in 1896, 
was... [DOC] [TLE] education of the artist - The Huntington [PAR] The Royal Academy of Arts in London was established by King George III in 1768
. ... the writings of its first president, Sir Joshua Reynolds, contributed to the ... 
Remembered today primarily for his portraits, Reynolds placed the greatest value
. [DOC] [TLE] Joshua Reynolds | artble.com [PAR] Not merely a painter

Question: This portrait painter was the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts
Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds