Author: ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
Title: List of the Members of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. 1815.
Description: Printed by B. McMillan, printer to the Royal Academy, 1815. Broadside, 330 x 205 mm. The R.A. was founded in 1768 with Joshua Reynolds as the first President. Benjamin West was President at this time and Academicians included Francesco Bartolozzi, Richard Cosway, John Flaxman, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Lawrence [later to become President himself], Thomas Stothard and John Sloane. Listed here is Mary Lloyd [née Moser 1744 - 1819], one of the only two female founding members of Academy and one of the most celebrated female artists of the 18th Century. She had a brief affair with Richard Cosway [listed here] in 1793, travelling with him for 6 months on a sketching tour, before returning and marrying Captain Hugh Lloyd, the widower of a friend. After her death in 1819 no further women members were elected as full members of the Academy until Dame Laura Knight in 1936.

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