"Election of A.R.A's, 1864" by H. S. Marks (original) (raw)

Election of A.R.A.'s, 1864

Henry Stacy Marks, RA (1829-1898)

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Illustration in Marks, facing p. 152

This was an anxious time: election as an A.R.A (Associate of the Royal Academy). was eagerly anticipated by up-and-coming artists. It would signal their arrival on the art world stage. Failure to be elected was disappointing, not to say devastating, and humour was one way of coping with both the anxiety beforehand, and the possible let-down afterwards.

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