List of Royal Academicians


This is a partial list of Royal Academicians, academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections.
NameElectedNotes
John Baker1768Foundation member
George Barret1768Foundation member
Francesco Bartolozzi1768Foundation member
Agostino Carlini1768Foundation member; Keeper 1783–90
Charles Catton1768Foundation member
Mason Chamberlin1768Foundation member
William Chambers1768Foundation member; first Treasurer 1768–96
Giovanni Battista Cipriani1768Foundation member
Francis Cotes1768Foundation member
George Dance the Younger1768Foundation member; Professor of Architecture 1798–1805
Nathaniel Dance-Holland1768Foundation member
Thomas Gainsborough1768Foundation member
John Gwynn1768Foundation member
Francis Hayman1768Foundation member; first Academy librarian 1770–1776
Nathaniel Hone1768Foundation member
Angelica Kauffman1768Foundation member
Jeremiah Meyer1768Foundation member
George Michael Moser1768Foundation member; first Keeper 1768–83
Mary Moser1768Foundation member
Francis Milner Newton1768Foundation member; first Secretary 1768–88
Edward Penny1768Foundation member; first Professor of Painting 1768–82
Joshua Reynolds1768Foundation member; President 1768–1792
John Inigo Richards1768Foundation member; Secretary 1788–1810
Paul Sandby1768Foundation member
Thomas Sandby1768Foundation member; first Professor of Architecture 1768–98
Dominic Serres1768Foundation member; Librarian 1792–93
Peter Toms1768Foundation member
William Tyler1768Foundation member
Samuel Wale1768Foundation member; first Professor of Perspective 1768–1786; Librarian 1782–86
Benjamin West1768Foundation member; President 1792–1805 & 1806–20
Richard Wilson1768Foundation member; Librarian 1776–1782
Joseph Wilton1768Foundation member; Librarian 1786–1790; Keeper 1790–1803
Richard Yeo1768Foundation member
Francesco Zuccarelli1768Foundation member
William Hoare1769Nominated member
Johann Zoffany1769Nominated member
Edward Burch1771Librarian 1794–1814
Richard Cosway1771
Joseph Nollekens1772
James Barry1773Professor of Painting 1782–1799
Matthew William Peters1777Honorary Chaplain 1784–1788
John Singleton Copley1779
John Bacon1778
Philip James de Loutherbourg1781
George Stubbs1781
Edmund Garvey1783
John Francis Rigaud1784
Thomas Banks1785
Joseph Farington1785
James Wyatt1785President 1805–1806
William Hodges1787
James Northcote1787
John Opie1788Professor of Painting 1805–1807
John Russell1788
William Hamilton1789
Henry Fuseli1790Professor of Painting 1799–1805 & 1810–25; Keeper 1804–1825
Ozias Humphrey1791
Francis Wheatley1791
John Yenn1791Treasurer 1796–1820
John Webber1791
Francis Bourgeois1793
Robert Smirke1793
Thomas Lawrence1794President 1820–30
Richard Westall1794
Thomas Stothard1794Librarian 1814–1834
John Hoppner1795
Sawrey Gilpin1797
William Beechey1798Associate RA: 1793
Thomas Daniell1799
Henry Tresham1799Professor of Painting 1807–1809
John Flaxman1800first Professor of Sculpture 1810–26
Martin Archer Shee1800President 1830–50
John Soane1802Professor of Architecture 1806–37
J. M. W. Turner1802Professor of Perspective 1807–37
Henry Thomson1804Keeper 1825–27
William Owen1806
Samuel Woodforde1807
Henry Howard1808Secretary 1811–47; Professor of Painting 1833–1847
Thomas Phillips1808Professor of Painting 1825–32
Augustus Wall Callcott1810
Henry Bone1811
James Ward1811
David Wilkie1811
Richard Westmacott1811Professor of Sculpture 1827–56
Robert Smirke1811Treasurer 1820–50
Philip Reinagle1812
William Theed1813
George Dawe1814
Edward Bird1815
Henry Raeburn1815
Alfred Edward Chalon1816
John Jackson1817
Francis Leggatt Chantrey1818
William Hilton1819Keeper 1827–39
William Collins1820Librarian 1840–42
Abraham Cooper1820
Edward Hodges Baily1821
Richard Cook1822
William Daniell1822
Ramsay Richard Reinagle1823
George Jones1824Librarian 1834–1840; Keeper 1840–50
Jeffry Wyatville1824
Charles Robert Leslie1826Professor of Painting 1847–52
Henry William Pickersgill1826Librarian 1856–64
William Wilkins1826Professor of Architecture 1837–39
William Etty1828
John Constable1829
Charles Lock Eastlake1830Librarian 1842–44; President 1850–65
Edwin Henry Landseer1831
William Allan1835
Clarkson Stanfield1835
Charles Robert Cockerell1836Professor of Architecture 1839–59
John Gibson1836
John Peter Gandy1838
Frederick Richard Lee1838
Thomas Uwins1838Librarian 1844–55
Daniel Maclise1840
Solomon Alexander Hart1840Professor of Painting 1854–63; Librarian 1864–81
William Frederick Witherington1840
John James Chalon1841
Philip Hardwick1841Treasurer 1850–61
David Roberts1841
Charles Barry1842
William Charles Ross1843
John Prescott Knight1844Secretary 1847–1873; Professor of Perspective 1852–1860
Charles Landseer1845Keeper 1851–73
John Rogers Herbert1846
Charles West Cope1848Professor of Painting 1866–75
William Dyce1848
Richard Westmacott1849Professor of Sculpture 1857–68
John Watson Gordon1851
Francis Grant1851President 1866–78
Richard Redgrave1851
William Powell Frith1853
Samuel Cousins1855
Frederick Richard Pickersgill1857Keeper 1873–1887
John Henry Foley1858
Sydney Smirke1859Treasurer 1861–1874; Professor of Architecture 1860–1865
Augustus Egg1860
George Gilbert Scott1860Professor of Architecture 1866–1873
Edward William Cooke1863
William Boxall1863
John Everett Millais1863President 1896
Henry Weekes1863Professor of Sculpture 1868–76
John Callcott Horsley1864Treasurer 1882–1897
Carlo Marochetti1866
George Richmond1866
Philip Hermogenes Calderon1867Keeper 1887–98
Thomas Sidney Cooper1867
George Frederic Watts1867
Frederic Leighton1868President 1878–96
Edward Middleton Barry1869Professor of Architecture 1873–80; Treasurer 1874–80
James Sant1869
Richard Ansdell1870
William Charles Thomas Dobson1871
Lumb Stocks1871
George Edmund Street1871Professor of Architecture 1880–81; Treasurer 1880–81
Frederick Walker1871
Edward Armitage1872Professor of Painting 1875–82
Thomas Woolner1874Professor of Sculpture 1877–78
John Gilbert1876
Edward Poynter1876President 1896–1918
William Quiller Orchardson1877
Richard Norman Shaw1877Treasurer 1882
Henry Stacy Marks1878
William Frederick Yeames1878Librarian 1896–1911
Lawrence Alma-Tadema1879
John Evan Hodgson1879Librarian 1882–95; Professor of Painting 1882–95
George Vicat Cole1880
Henry Hugh Armstead1880
John Loughborough Pearson1880
William Burges1881
Edwin Long1881
Walter William Ouless1881
Joseph Edgar Boehm1882
Briton Rivière1881
Frank Holl1883
Alfred Waterhouse1885Treasurer 1897–1901
Luke Fildes1887
Marcus Stone1887
Hamo Thornycroft1888
Hubert von Herkomer1890Professor of Painting 1899–1900 & 1906–1909
Thomas Brock1891
Frank Dicksee1891President 1924–1928
Andrew Carrick Gow1891Keeper 1911–1920; Librarian 1911–1920
Alfred Gilbert1892Professor of Sculpture 1900–1904
Val Prinsep1894Professor of Painting 1900–1903
Edward Onslow Ford1895
William Blake Richmond1895Professor of Painting 1895–1899 & 1909–1911
John William Waterhouse1895
Ernest Crofts1896Keeper 1898–1911
Thomas Graham Jackson1896Treasurer 1901–1912
John Singer Sargent1897
George Frederic Watts1897
Edwin Austin Abbey1898
George Aitchison1898Professor of Architecture 1887–1905
Benjamin Williams Leader1898
George Frederick Bodley1902
George Frampton1902
Aston Webb1903Treasurer 1912–1919; President 1919–24
Robert Walker Macbeth1903
David Murray1905
George Clausen1908Professor of Painting 1903–1906
William Lionel Wyllie1907
John Belcher1909
Goscombe John1909
James Jebusa Shannon1909
Arthur Stockdale Cope1910
Charles Napier Hemy1910
Frank Bramley1911
Henry Herbert La Thangue1912
Reginald Blomfield1914Professor of Architecture 1907–11
Alfred East1913
G.A. Storey1914Professor of Perspective 1914–19
Henry Scott Tuke1914
John Arnesby Brown1915
Charles Sims1915Keeper 1920–26
Ernest George1917
William Robert Colton1917Professor of Sculpture 1907–1911
Frank Brangwyn1919
Ernest Newton1919
William Orpen1919
Adrian Scott Stokes1919
David Young Cameron1920
William Llewellyn1920President 1928–1938
Charles Haslewood Shannon1920
Edwin Landseer Lutyens1920President 1938–1944
Robert Anning Bell1922
Giles Gilbert Scott1922
Terrick Williams1924
Philip Connard1925Keeper 1945–1949
John James Burnet1925
Alfred Munnings1925President 1944–1949
Walter Westley Russell1926Keeper 1927–42
Augustus John1928
William Reid Dick1928
Gerald Kelly1930Keeper 1943–1945; President 1949–1954
Sydney Lee1930Treasurer 1932–40
Herbert Baker1932
George Spencer Watson1932
Wilfrid de Glehn1932
Henry Macbeth-Raeburn1933Associate RA: 1922
William Russell Flint1933
William Curtis Green1933
Frank Short1933Treasurer 1919–32
Lamorna Birch1934
Walter Sickert1934
Francis Dodd1935
Guy Dawber1935
Laura Knight1936
Henry Rushbury1936Keeper 1949–1964
Harold Knight1937
Edwin Cooper1937Treasurer 1940–42
Frederick William Elwell1938
Walter Thomas Monnington1938President 1966–76
Charles Wheeler1940President 1956–66
James Bateman1942
Meredith Frampton1942
Vincent Harris1942Treasurer 1942–54
Arthur Joseph Davis1942
Thomas Cantrell Dugdale1943
Algernon Newton1943
Albert Richardson1944Professor of Architecture 1946–61; President 1954–56
Charles Cundall1944
Edward Maufe1947Treasurer 1954–58
Winston Churchill1948Honorary Academician Extraordinary
Henry Lamb1949
Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd1949
Stanley Spencer1950
John Nash1951
Arnold Mason1951
Steven Spurrier1952
Frank Dobson1953
Louis de Soissons1953Treasurer 1958–1962
Richard Eurich1953
William Dring1955
Hubert Worthington1955
Howard Robertson1958
Peter Greenham1960Keeper 1964–1985
Basil Spence1960Professor of Architecture 1961–1967; Treasurer 1962–1964
Herbert James Gunn1961Treasurer 1964
Norman Hepple1961
Rodney Joseph Burn1962
L.S. Lowry1962
Donald McMorran1962Treasurer 1965
John Aldridge1963
Marshall Sisson1963Treasurer 1965–70
Raymond Erith1964
Andrew Freeth1965
Carel Weight1965
Henry Carr1966
William Roberts1966
Raymond Teague Cowern1968
Charles Mahoney1968
Eric Schilsky1968
William Holford1968Treasurer 1970–1975
Roger de Grey1969Treasurer 1976–1984; President 1984–1993
Frederick Gibberd1969
Leonard Rosoman1969
Willi Soukop1969
Hugh Casson1970Treasurer 1975–1976; President 1976–1984
Edward Ardizzone1970
Colin Hayes1970
John Bratby1971
Gertrude Hermes1971
Norman Adams1972Keeper 1986–1995; Professor of Painting 1986 & 1995–1999
Ralph Brown1972
Jean Cooke1972
Maxwell Fry1972Professor of Architecture 1967–1975
Frederick Gore1972
Edward Wolfe1972
William MacTaggart1973
Edward Middleditch1973Keeper 1985–1986
Fred Cuming1974
Bryan Kneale1974Professor of Sculpture 1985–1989
Kyffin Williams1974
Olwyn Bowey1975
Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown1975Professor of Architecture 1975–88
Ernő Goldfinger1975
Elizabeth Blackadder1976
Jennifer Dickson1976
Elisabeth Frink1977
Anthony Green1977
Philip Powell1977Treasurer 1985–1995
Sandra Blow1978
Leonard Manasseh1979
Eduardo Paolozzi1979
David Tindle1979
Peter Blake1981Eranda Professor of Drawing 2002–2004
William Bowyer1981
Sonia Lawson1982
Tom Phillips1984
Trevor Dannatt1983Professor of Architecture 1988–1995
Michael Rothenstein1983
Richard Rogers1984
Philip Dowson1985President 1993–1999
Donald Hamilton Fraser1985
Leslie Martin1985
Ove Arup1986
Allen Jones1986
Michael Kenny1986Treasurer 1995–1999
Morris Kestelman1986
Norman Ackroyd1988
Eileen Agar1988
Craigie Aitchison1988
Phillip King1988Professor of Sculpture 1989–1999; President 1999–2004
Ann Christopher1989
Lawrence Gowing1989Honorary Curator 1985–1991
Berthold Lubetkin1989
Michael Sandle1989
Theo Crosby1990
Ivor Abrahams1991Professor of Sculpture 2007–2010
Norman Ackroyd1991Professor of Printmaking
Diana Armfield1991
Gillian Ayres1991
John Bellany1991
Edward Cullinan1991
Kenneth Draper1991
Norman Foster1991
Paul Huxley1991Treasurer 2000–2014
David Hockney1991
Ken Howard1991Professor of Perspective 2004–2012
John Hoyland1991Professor of Painting 1999–2010
Bill Jacklin1991
Geoffrey Jellicoe1991
R. B. Kitaj1991
Paul Koralek1991
Denys Lasdun1991
Leonard McComb1991Keeper 1995–98
Dhruva Mistry1991
Sidney Nolan1991
James Stirling1991
Joe Tilson1991
Colin St John Wilson1991
Terry Frost1992
Michael Hopkins1992
Brendan Neiland1992Keeper 1998–2004
Richard MacCormac1993
Jennifer Durrant1994
Nicholas Grimshaw1994President 2004–11
Christopher Orr1995Treasurer 2014–2018
Flavia Irwin1996
Christopher Le Brun1996Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 – 2002; President 2011–2019
Patrick Procktor1996
Barbara Rae1996
Eva Jiřičná1997
Stephen Farthing1998
David Mach1998Professor of Sculpture 2000–2007
Ian Ritchie1998Professor of Architecture 2004–2012
Anish Kapoor1999
Alison Wilding1999Eranda Professor of Drawing 2018–Present
Maurice Cockrill1999Keeper 2004–2011
David Nash1999
Will Alsop2000
Gordon Benson2000
Lynn Chadwick2001
Eileen Cooper2001First female Keeper, 2011 – 2017
Piers Gough2001Professor of Architecture 2013–2017
Gary Hume2001Eranda Professor of Drawing 2004–2006
Richard Long2001
Fiona Rae2002Professor of Painting 2011–2015
Peter Cook2003
Antony Gormley2003
Ian McKeever2003
Anthony Caro2004
Humphrey Ocean2004Professor of Perspective 2012–Present
Frank Bowling2005
Zaha Hadid2005
Lisa Milroy2005
Basil Beattie2006
Michael Craig-Martin2006
David Remfry2006Eranda Professor of Drawing 2016–18
Chris Wilkinson2006Treasurer 2018–Present
Richard Wilson2006Professor of Sculpture 2011–15
David Chipperfield2007
Tracey Emin2007Eranda Professor of Drawing 2011–13
Tony Bevan2007
John Carter2007
Jenny Saville2007
Gillian Wearing2007
Spencer de Grey2008
Tacita Dean2008
Michael Landy2008Eranda Professor of Drawing 2014–16
Cornelia Parker2009
Tess Jaray2010
Mali Morris2010
Phyllida Barlow2011
Anne Desmet2011
Grayson Perry2011
Ron Arad2012
Thomas Heatherwick2013
Chantal Joffe2013Professor of Painting 2018–Present
Emma Stibbon2013
Conrad Shawcross2013
Louisa Hutton2014
Cathie Pilkington2014Professor of Sculpture 2015–Present
Rebecca Warren2014
Rebecca Salter2014Keeper 2017–2019; President 2019-Present
Brian Catling2015
Farshid Moussavi2015Professor of Architecture 2017–Present
Vanessa Jackson2015
Roger Zogolovitch2015Honorary Surveyor
Sonia Boyce2016
David Adjaye2017
Gilbert & George2017Left the RA in 2020