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Royal Academicians

  • John Gilbert (painter)John Gilbert was born on the 21st of July 1817 in Blackheath, Surrey. He began his working life as an apprentice to a firm of estate agents.
  • Peter Blake (artist)Peter Blake was born on the 25th of June 1932 in Dartford, Kent. He began his formal training at the Gravesend Technical College school of art before moving…
  • Henry FuseliHenry Fuseli was born on the 7th of February 1741 in Zürich. He grew up as the second child among eighteen siblings. His father Johann Caspar Füssli worked…
  • William Powell FrithWilliam Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire on the 9th of January 1819. He had originally intended to be an…
  • William Blake RichmondWilliam Blake Richmond entered the world on the 29th of November 1842 in Marylebone. His father George Richmond was a portrait painter of some note, and his…
  • Lawrence Alma-TademaOn the 8th of January 1836, a boy named Lourens Alma Tadema was born in Dronryp. This village sat in Friesland, the northern province of the Netherlands.
  • Joseph FaringtonJoseph Farington entered the world on the 21st of November 1747 in Leigh, Lancashire. He was the second son born to William Farington and Esther Gilbody.