The RP goes East

Antony Williams and Anthony Connolly are in China as guests of Shengxinyu Art.   We have a programme of lectures, talks, studio visits and exhibitions, all with the purpose of enriching Sino-British understanding and engagement with the visual arts. This is the first time the RP has explored the possibility of collaborations with Chinese artists.…

100 Years Since John Singer Sargent

JOHN SINGER SARGENT 1856 – 2025   John Singer Sargent was made an Honorary Member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1903. The Society is delighted to be able to celebrate its distinguished former member in this, his centenary year. The Sargent scholar, Richard Ormond, has very generously loaned Sargent’s painting of ‘Conrad…

FRANCES BELL RP | MY TEACHER

    FRANCESS BELL RP: MY TEACHER “My teacher, Charles Cecil is a classicist to his core. He was trained in Boston by R.H Ives Gammel and came over to Europe, and finally Florence as a young man in the manner, I always imagined, of a 19th century fictional character seeking his fortune. He settled…