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This portrait depicts members and employees of The Royal Academy of Art. Founded in 1768 and under royal patronage, the Academy is a self-selecting, self-governing body that provides a teaching school and exhibition space. Regarded as a bastion of the establishment, it is now renowned for the temporary exhibitions that it hosts. Rosoman studied at the Royal Academy and the Central Schools of Art. He was appointed official war artist to the Admiralty between 1943 and 1945, and became a Royal Academician in 1970. From the bottom left corner clockwise the sitters are: Robert Buhler (1916–1989), painter; Sir Philip Powell (1921–2003), architect; Michael Rothenstein (1908–1993), painter & print-maker; Bernard Dunstan (b.1920), painter; James Butler (b.
Title
The Meeting, Royal Academy of Arts (includes Robert Buhler; James Walter Butler; Sir Hugh Casson; (James) Trevor Dannatt; Sir Roger de Grey; Bernard Dunstan; Elisabeth Frink; Peter Greenham; Sydney Charles Harpley; Colin Graham Hayes; Norman Hepple; Sir Philip Powell; Piers Rodgers; Leonard Rosoman; Michael Rothenstein; Sir Richard Sheppard and 4 others)
Date
1979–1984
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Measurements
H 152.4 x W 152.4 cm
Accession number
5740
Acquisition method
Purchased, 1984
Work type
Painting