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Description: The Academicians of the Royal Academy

TitleThe Academicians of the Royal Academy

Creator nameZoffany, Johann

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1771–1772

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions100.7 x 147.3 cm

LocationRoyal Collection, United Kingdom

https://www.rct.uk/collection/400747/the-academicians-of-the-royal-academy

Accession numberRCIN 400747

SubjectsSomerset House (London, England)Artists and models in artArt--Study and teaching--Great BritainPortraits, GroupConversation piece (Portrait painting)Plaster casts

StatusShows several cast sculpture copies along the walls, including a full-scale version of Mercurio Volante by Giambologna

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1. Making Portraits

Jennifer Van Horn

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

~In February 1773 the Boston merchant William Duguid sat for his portrait (fig. 13). The depiction that resulted is in many ways a predictable...

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Jennifer Van Horn

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, American--18th centuryAfrican American artistsArtists, BlackSlave laborArt--Study and teachingRacism

7. The Academy Project

Mark Hallett

Reynolds: Portraiture in Action

~~In around 1767, Reynolds was depicted with particular sensitivity by Angelica Kauffman, a highly accomplished Swiss painter who specialised in mythological and historical subjects (fig. 199). After a period of...

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Mark Hallett

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Chapter subject tags:Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Portrait painting, British--18th centuryKauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th centuryWomen and gender--Britain--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th century

2. Intersubjective Portrayal

Angela Rosenthal

Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility

WHEN THE ENGLISH art critic and painter William Hazlitt noted that the “relationship between the portrait-painter and his amiable sitters is one of established custom...

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Angela Rosenthal

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, Swiss--18th centuryArt patronage--Great Britain--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryKauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807Women artists--Switzerland--18th century

The Mellon Mercury: Investigating a Giambologna Replica

Shelley Sturman and Debra Pincus

Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 4: Series, Multiples, Replicas

A striking acquisition by The Andrew W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust for the National Gallery of Art was a sculpture of Mercury...

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Shelley Sturman and Debra Pincus

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II. Illustrious Heads

Marcia Pointon

Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England

But no invention has better answered the end of perpetuating the memory of illustrious men, than the modern art of engraving, which I shall, without scruple, prefer to the boasted art of the Egyptians...

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