List of Royal Academicians

This is a partial list of Royal Academicians (Post-nominal: RA), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections.[1]

Name	Elected	Notes
John Baker	1768	Foundation member
George Barret	1768	Foundation member
Francesco Bartolozzi	1768	Foundation member
Agostino Carlini	1768	Foundation member; Keeper 1783–90
Charles Catton	1768	Foundation member
Mason Chamberlin	1768	Foundation member
William Chambers	1768	Foundation member; first Treasurer 1768–96
Giovanni Battista Cipriani	1768	Foundation member
Francis Cotes	1768	Foundation member
George Dance the Younger	1768	Foundation member; Professor of Architecture 1798–1805
Nathaniel Dance-Holland	1768	Foundation member
Thomas Gainsborough	1768	Foundation member
John Gwynn	1768	Foundation member
Francis Hayman	1768	Foundation member; first Academy librarian 1770–1776
Nathaniel Hone	1768	Foundation member
Angelica Kauffman	1768	Foundation member
Jeremiah Meyer	1768	Foundation member
George Michael Moser	1768	Foundation member; first Keeper 1768–83
Mary Moser	1768	Foundation member
Francis Milner Newton	1768	Foundation member; first Secretary 1768–88
Edward Penny	1768	Foundation member; first Professor of Painting 1768–82
Joshua Reynolds	1768	Foundation member; President 1768–1792
John Inigo Richards	1768	Foundation member; Secretary 1788–1810
Paul Sandby	1768	Foundation member
Thomas Sandby	1768	Foundation member; first Professor of Architecture 1768–98
Dominic Serres	1768	Foundation member; Librarian 1792–93
Peter Toms	1768	Foundation member
William Tyler	1768	Foundation member
Samuel Wale	1768	Foundation member; first Professor of Perspective 1768–1786; Librarian 1782–86
Benjamin West	1768	Foundation member; President 1792–1805 & 1806–20
Richard Wilson	1768	Foundation member; Librarian 1776–1782
Joseph Wilton	1768	Foundation member; Librarian 1786–1790; Keeper 1790–1803
Richard Yeo	1768	Foundation member
Francesco Zuccarelli	1768	Foundation member
William Hoare	1769	Nominated member
Johann Zoffany	1769	Nominated member
Edward Burch	1771	Librarian 1794–1814
Richard Cosway	1771
Joseph Nollekens	1772
James Barry	1773	Professor of Painting 1782–1799
Matthew William Peters	1777	Honorary Chaplain 1784–1788
John Singleton Copley	1779
John Bacon	1778
Philip James de Loutherbourg	1781
George Stubbs	1781
Edmund Garvey	1783
John Francis Rigaud	1784
Thomas Banks	1785
Joseph Farington	1785
James Wyatt	1785	President 1805–1806
William Hodges	1787
James Northcote	1787
John Opie	1788	Professor of Painting 1805–1807
John Russell	1788
William Hamilton	1789
Henry Fuseli	1790	Professor of Painting 1799–1805 & 1810–25; Keeper 1804–1825
Ozias Humphrey	1791
Francis Wheatley	1791
John Yenn	1791	Treasurer 1796–1820
John Webber	1791
Francis Bourgeois	1793
Robert Smirke	1793
Thomas Lawrence	1794	President 1820–30
Richard Westall	1794
Thomas Stothard	1794	Librarian 1814–1834
John Hoppner	1795
Sawrey Gilpin	1797
William Beechey	1798	Associate RA: 1793
Thomas Daniell	1799
Henry Tresham	1799	Professor of Painting 1807–1809
John Flaxman	1800	first Professor of Sculpture 1810–26
Martin Archer Shee	1800	President 1830–50
John Soane	1802	Professor of Architecture 1806–37
J. M. W. Turner	1802	Professor of Perspective 1807–37
Henry Thomson	1804	Keeper 1825–27
William Owen	1806
Samuel Woodforde	1807
Henry Howard	1808	Secretary 1811–47; Professor of Painting 1833–1847
Thomas Phillips	1808	Professor of Painting 1825–32
Augustus Wall Callcott	1810
Henry Bone	1811
James Ward	1811
David Wilkie	1811
Richard Westmacott	1811	Professor of Sculpture 1827–56
Robert Smirke	1811	Treasurer 1820–50
Philip Reinagle	1812
William Theed	1813
George Dawe	1814
Edward Bird	1815
Henry Raeburn	1815
Alfred Edward Chalon	1816
John Jackson	1817
Francis Leggatt Chantrey	1818
William Hilton	1819	Keeper 1827–39
William Collins	1820	Librarian 1840–42
Abraham Cooper	1820
Edward Hodges Baily	1821
Richard Cook	1822
William Daniell	1822
Ramsay Richard Reinagle	1823
George Jones	1824	Librarian 1834–1840; Keeper 1840–50
Jeffry Wyatville	1824
Charles Robert Leslie	1826	Professor of Painting 1847–52
Henry William Pickersgill	1826	Librarian 1856–64
William Wilkins	1826	Professor of Architecture 1837–39
William Etty	1828
John Constable	1829
Charles Lock Eastlake	1830	Librarian 1842–44; President 1850–65
Edwin Henry Landseer	1831
William Allan	1835
Clarkson Stanfield	1835
Charles Robert Cockerell	1836	Professor of Architecture 1839–59
John Gibson	1836
John Peter Gandy	1838
Frederick Richard Lee	1838
Thomas Uwins	1838	Librarian 1844–55
Daniel Maclise	1840
Solomon Alexander Hart	1840	Professor of Painting 1854–63; Librarian 1864–81
William Frederick Witherington	1840
John James Chalon	1841
Philip Hardwick	1841	Treasurer 1850–61
David Roberts	1841
Charles Barry	1842
William Charles Ross	1843
John Prescott Knight	1844	Secretary 1847–1873; Professor of Perspective 1852–1860
Charles Landseer	1845	Keeper 1851–73
John Rogers Herbert	1846
Charles West Cope	1848	Professor of Painting 1866–75
William Dyce	1848
Richard Westmacott	1849	Professor of Sculpture 1857–68
John Watson Gordon	1851
Francis Grant	1851	President 1866–78
Richard Redgrave	1851
William Powell Frith	1853
Samuel Cousins	1855
Frederick Richard Pickersgill	1857	Keeper 1873–1887
John Henry Foley	1858
Sydney Smirke	1859	Treasurer 1861–1874; Professor of Architecture 1860–1865
Augustus Egg	1860
George Gilbert Scott	1860	Professor of Architecture 1866–1873
Edward William Cooke	1863
William Boxall	1863
John Everett Millais	1863	President 1896
Henry Weekes	1863	Professor of Sculpture 1868–76
John Callcott Horsley	1864	Treasurer 1882–1897
Carlo Marochetti	1866
George Richmond	1866
Philip Hermogenes Calderon	1867	Keeper 1887–98
Thomas Sidney Cooper	1867
George Frederic Watts	1867
Frederic Leighton	1868	President 1878–96
Edward Middleton Barry	1869	Professor of Architecture 1873–80; Treasurer 1874–80
James Sant	1869
Richard Ansdell	1870
William Charles Thomas Dobson	1871
Lumb Stocks	1871
George Edmund Street	1871	Professor of Architecture 1880–81; Treasurer 1880–81
Frederick Walker	1871
Edward Armitage	1872	Professor of Painting 1875–82
Thomas Woolner	1874	Professor of Sculpture 1877–78
John Gilbert	1876
Edward Poynter	1876	President 1896–1918
William Quiller Orchardson	1877
Richard Norman Shaw	1877	Treasurer 1882
Henry Stacy Marks	1878
William Frederick Yeames	1878	Librarian 1896–1911
Lawrence Alma-Tadema	1879
John Evan Hodgson	1879	Librarian 1882–95; Professor of Painting 1882–95
George Vicat Cole	1880
Henry Hugh Armstead	1880
John Loughborough Pearson	1880
William Burges	1881
Edwin Long	1881
Walter William Ouless	1881
Joseph Edgar Boehm	1882
Briton Rivière	1881
Frank Holl	1883
Alfred Waterhouse	1885	Treasurer 1897–1901
Luke Fildes	1887
Marcus Stone	1887
Hamo Thornycroft	1888
Hubert von Herkomer	1890	Professor of Painting 1899–1900 & 1906–1909
Thomas Brock	1891
Frank Dicksee	1891	President 1924–1928
Andrew Carrick Gow	1891	Keeper 1911–1920; Librarian 1911–1920
Alfred Gilbert	1892	Professor of Sculpture 1900–1904
Val Prinsep	1894	Professor of Painting 1900–1903
Edward Onslow Ford	1895
William Blake Richmond	1895	Professor of Painting 1895–1899 & 1909–1911
John William Waterhouse	1895
Ernest Crofts	1896	Keeper 1898–1911
Thomas Graham Jackson	1896	Treasurer 1901–1912
John Singer Sargent	1897
George Frederic Watts	1897
Edwin Austin Abbey	1898
George Aitchison	1898	Professor of Architecture 1887–1905
Benjamin Williams Leader	1898
George Frederick Bodley	1902
George Frampton	1902
Aston Webb	1903	Treasurer 1912–1919; President 1919–24
Robert Walker Macbeth	1903
David Murray	1905
George Clausen	1908	Professor of Painting 1903–1906
William Lionel Wyllie	1907
John Belcher	1909
Goscombe John	1909
James Jebusa Shannon	1909
Arthur Stockdale Cope	1910
Charles Napier Hemy	1910
Frank Bramley	1911
Henry Herbert La Thangue	1912
Reginald Blomfield	1914	Professor of Architecture 1907–11
Alfred East	1913
G.A. Storey	1914	Professor of Perspective 1914–19
Henry Scott Tuke	1914
John Arnesby Brown	1915
Charles Sims	1915	Keeper 1920–26
Ernest George	1917
William Robert Colton	1917	Professor of Sculpture 1907–1911
Frank Brangwyn	1919
Ernest Newton	1919
William Orpen	1919
Adrian Scott Stokes	1919
David Young Cameron	1920
William Llewellyn	1920	President 1928–1938
Charles Haslewood Shannon	1920
Edwin Landseer Lutyens	1920	President 1938–1944
Robert Anning Bell	1922
Giles Gilbert Scott	1922
Terrick Williams	1924
Philip Connard	1925	Keeper 1945–1949
John James Burnet	1925
Alfred Munnings	1925	President 1944–1949
Walter Westley Russell	1926	Keeper 1927–42
Augustus John	1928
William Reid Dick	1928
Gerald Kelly	1930	Keeper 1943–1945; President 1949–1954
Sydney Lee	1930	Treasurer 1932–40
Herbert Baker	1932
George Spencer Watson	1932
Wilfrid de Glehn	1932
Henry Macbeth-Raeburn	1933	Associate RA: 1922
William Russell Flint	1933
William Curtis Green	1933
Frank Short	1933	Treasurer 1919–32
Lamorna Birch	1934
Walter Sickert	1934
Francis Dodd	1935
Guy Dawber	1935
Laura Knight	1936
Henry Rushbury	1936	Keeper 1949–1964
Harold Knight	1937
Edwin Cooper	1937	Treasurer 1940–42
Frederick William Elwell	1938
Walter Thomas Monnington	1938	President 1966–76
Charles Wheeler	1940	President 1956–66
James Bateman	1942
Meredith Frampton	1942
Vincent Harris	1942	Treasurer 1942–54
Arthur Joseph Davis	1942
Thomas Cantrell Dugdale	1943
Algernon Newton	1943
Albert Richardson	1944	Professor of Architecture 1946–61; President 1954–56
Charles Cundall	1944
Edward Maufe	1947	Treasurer 1954–58
Winston Churchill	1948	Honorary Academician Extraordinary
Henry Lamb	1949
Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd	1949
Stanley Spencer	1950
John Nash	1951
Arnold Mason	1951
Steven Spurrier	1952
Frank Dobson	1953
Louis de Soissons	1953	Treasurer 1958–1962
Richard Eurich	1953
William Dring	1955
Hubert Worthington	1955
Howard Robertson	1958
Peter Greenham	1960	Keeper 1964–1985
Basil Spence	1960	Professor of Architecture 1961–1967; Treasurer 1962–1964
Herbert James Gunn	1961	Treasurer 1964
Norman Hepple	1961
Rodney Joseph Burn	1962
L.S. Lowry	1962
Donald McMorran	1962	Treasurer 1965
John Aldridge	1963
Marshall Sisson	1963	Treasurer 1965–70
Raymond Erith	1964
Andrew Freeth	1965
Carel Weight	1965
Henry Carr	1966
William Roberts	1966
Raymond Teague Cowern	1968
Charles Mahoney	1968
Eric Schilsky	1968
William Holford	1968	Treasurer 1970–1975
Roger de Grey	1969	Treasurer 1976–1984; President 1984–1993
Frederick Gibberd	1969
Leonard Rosoman	1969
Willi Soukop	1969
Hugh Casson	1970	Treasurer 1975–1976; President 1976–1984
Edward Ardizzone	1970
Colin Hayes	1970
John Bratby	1971
Gertrude Hermes	1971
Norman Adams	1972	Keeper 1986–1995; Professor of Painting 1986 & 1995–1999
Ralph Brown	1972
Jean Cooke	1972
Maxwell Fry	1972	Professor of Architecture 1967–1975
Frederick Gore	1972
Edward Wolfe	1972
William MacTaggart	1973
Edward Middleditch	1973	Keeper 1985–1986
Fred Cuming	1974
Bryan Kneale	1974	Professor of Sculpture 1985–1989
Kyffin Williams	1974
Olwyn Bowey	1975
Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown	1975	Professor of Architecture 1975–88
Ernő Goldfinger	1975
Elizabeth Blackadder	1976
Jennifer Dickson	1976
Elisabeth Frink	1977
Anthony Green	1977
Philip Powell	1977	Treasurer 1985–1995
Sandra Blow	1978
Leonard Manasseh	1979
Eduardo Paolozzi	1979
David Tindle	1979
Peter Blake	1981	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2002–2004
William Bowyer	1981
Sonia Lawson	1982
Tom Phillips	1984
Trevor Dannatt	1983	Professor of Architecture 1988–1995
Michael Rothenstein	1983
Richard Rogers	1984
Philip Dowson	1985	President 1993–1999
Donald Hamilton Fraser	1985
Leslie Martin	1985
Ove Arup	1986
Allen Jones	1986
Michael Kenny	1986	Treasurer 1995–1999
Morris Kestelman	1986
Norman Ackroyd	1988
Eileen Agar	1988
Craigie Aitchison	1988
Phillip King	1988	Professor of Sculpture 1989–1999; President 1999–2004
Ann Christopher	1989
Lawrence Gowing	1989	Honorary Curator 1985–1991
Berthold Lubetkin	1989
Michael Sandle	1989
Theo Crosby	1990
Ivor Abrahams	1991	Professor of Sculpture 2007–2010
Norman Ackroyd	1991	Professor of Printmaking
Diana Armfield	1991
Gillian Ayres	1991
John Bellany	1991
Edward Cullinan	1991
Kenneth Draper	1991
Norman Foster	1991
Paul Huxley	1991	Treasurer 2000–2014
David Hockney	1991
Ken Howard	1991	Professor of Perspective 2004–2012
John Hoyland	1991	Professor of Painting 1999–2010
Bill Jacklin	1991
Geoffrey Jellicoe	1991
R. B. Kitaj	1991
Paul Koralek	1991
Denys Lasdun	1991
Leonard McComb	1991	Keeper 1995–98
Dhruva Mistry	1991
Sidney Nolan	1991
James Stirling	1991
Joe Tilson	1991
Colin St John Wilson	1991
Terry Frost	1992
Michael Hopkins	1992
Brendan Neiland	1992	Keeper 1998–2004
Richard MacCormac	1993
Jennifer Durrant	1994
Nicholas Grimshaw	1994	President 2004–11
Christopher Orr	1995	Treasurer 2014–2018
Flavia Irwin	1996
Christopher Le Brun	1996	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 – 2002; President 2011–2019
Patrick Procktor	1996
Barbara Rae	1996
Eva Jiřičná	1997
Stephen Farthing	1998
David Mach	1998	Professor of Sculpture 2000–2007
Ian Ritchie	1998	Professor of Architecture 2004–2012
Anish Kapoor	1999
Alison Wilding	1999	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2018–Present
Maurice Cockrill	1999	Keeper 2004–2011
David Nash	1999
Will Alsop	2000
Gordon Benson	2000
Lynn Chadwick	2001
Eileen Cooper	2001	First female Keeper, 2011 – 2017
Piers Gough	2001	Professor of Architecture 2013–2017
Gary Hume	2001	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2004–2006
Richard Long	2001
Fiona Rae	2002	Professor of Painting 2011–2015
Peter Cook	2003
Antony Gormley	2003
Ian McKeever	2003
Anthony Caro	2004
Humphrey Ocean	2004	Professor of Perspective 2012–Present
Frank Bowling	2005
Zaha Hadid	2005
Lisa Milroy	2005
Basil Beattie	2006
Michael Craig-Martin	2006
David Remfry	2006	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2016–18
Chris Wilkinson	2006	Treasurer 2018–Present
Richard Wilson	2006	Professor of Sculpture 2011–15
David Chipperfield	2007
Tracey Emin	2007	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2011–13
Tony Bevan	2007
John Carter	2007
Jenny Saville	2007
Gillian Wearing	2007
Spencer de Grey	2008
Tacita Dean	2008
Michael Landy	2008	Eranda Professor of Drawing 2014–16
Cornelia Parker	2009
Tess Jaray	2010
Mali Morris	2010
Phyllida Barlow	2011
Anne Desmet	2011
Grayson Perry	2011
Ron Arad	2012
Thomas Heatherwick	2013
Chantal Joffe	2013	Professor of Painting 2018–Present
Emma Stibbon	2013
Conrad Shawcross	2013
Louisa Hutton	2014
Cathie Pilkington	2014	Professor of Sculpture 2015–Present
Rebecca Warren	2014
Rebecca Salter	2014	Keeper 2017–2019; President 2019-Present
Brian Catling	2015
Farshid Moussavi	2015	Professor of Architecture 2017–Present
Vanessa Jackson	2015
Roger Zogolovitch	2015	Honorary Surveyor
Sonia Boyce	2016
David Adjaye	2017
Gilbert & George	2017	Left the RA in 2020 [2]

References

1. Royal Academicians. Royal Academy of Arts. Accessed July 2020.
2. "Gilbert and George quit Royal Academy over dashed hopes for major exhibition". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 July 2020.