List of Royal Academicians

Johan Zoffany, The Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771–72, Royal Collection. The Royal Academicians in General Assembly by Henry Singleton, 1795

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  | Ref.

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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 |  |
Frank Cadogan Cowper | 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 | Uncle of Peter Freeth |
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 |  |
Anthony Whishaw | 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 |  |
Peter Freeth | 26 June 1991  | Elected ARA: 30 May 1990

Nephew of Andrew Freeth

| [2]
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 |  |
Gus Cummins | 1992 |  |
William Tucker | 1992 |  |
Michael Hopkins | 1992 |  |
Brendan Neiland | 1992 | Keeper 1998–2004  |
Richard MacCormac | 1993 |  |
Jennifer Durrant | 1994 |  |
Mick Moon | 1994 |  |
Tony Cragg | 1994 |  |
Nicholas Grimshaw | 1994 | President 2004–11  |
Christopher Orr | 1995 | Treasurer 2014–2018  |
John Maine | 1995 |  |
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 |  |
Albert Irvin | 1998 | Elected Senior RA: 10 December 1998  |
Stephen Farthing | 1998 |  |
Richard Deacon | 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  |
Bill Woodrow | 2002 | Professor of Painting 2011–2015  |
Peter Cook | 2003 |  |
Antony Gormley | 2003 |  |
Nigel Hall | 2003 |  |
Ian McKeever | 2003 |  |
Anthony Caro | 2004 |  |
Humphrey Ocean | 2004 | Professor of Perspective 2012–2020  |
Frank Bowling | 2005 |  |
Zaha Hadid | 2005 |  |
Lisa Milroy | 2005 |  |
Stephen Chambers | 2005 |  |
Eric Parry | 2006 |  |
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  |
Terry Setch | 2009 |  |
Hughie O'Donoghue | 2009 |  |
Alan Stanton | 2009 |  |
Cornelia Parker | 2009 |  |
Tess Jaray | 2010 |  |
Mali Morris | 2010 | Professor of Painting 2019–2020  |
Stephen Cox | 2010 |  |
Timothy Hyman | 2011 |  |
Phyllida Barlow | 2011 |  |
Anne Desmet | 2011 |  |
Grayson Perry | 2011 |  |
Ron Arad | 2012 |  |
Sean Scully | 2012 |  |
Jock McFadyen | 2012 |  |
Thomas Heatherwick | 2013 |  |
Chantal Joffe | 2013 | Professor of Painting 2018–2019  |
Mike Nelson | 2013 | Professor of Sculpture 2019–Present  |
Emma Stibbon | 2013 |  |
Conrad Shawcross | 2013 |  |
Yinka Shonibare | 2013 |  |
Tim Shaw | 2013 |  |
Neil Jeffries | 2013 |  |
Bob and Roberta Smith | 2013 |  |
Wolfgang Tillmans | 2013 |  |
Louisa Hutton | 2014 |  |
Cathie Pilkington | 2014 | Professor of Sculpture 2015–2019; Keeper 2020-Present  |
Rebecca Warren | 2014 |  |
Eva Rothschild | 2014 |  |
Rose Wylie | 2014 |  |
Rebecca Salter | 2014 | Keeper 2017–2019; President 2019–Present  |
Brian Catling | 2015 |  |
Farshid Moussavi | 2015 | Professor of Architecture 2017–Present  |
Peter Randall-Page | 2015 |  |
Vanessa Jackson | 2015 |  |
Roger Zogolovitch | 2015 | Honorary Surveyor  |
Paula Rego | 2016 |  |
Sonia Boyce | 2016 |  |
David Adjaye | 2017 |  |
Fiona Banner | 2017 | Professor of Perspective 2020–Present  |
Isaac Julien | 2017 |  |
Gilbert & George | 2017 | Left the RA in 2020[3] |
Jane and Louise Wilson | 2018 |  |
Lubaina Himid | 2018 | Professor of Painting 2020–Present  |
Adam Caruso and Peter St John | 2018 |  |
Níall McLaughlin | 2019 |  |
John Akomfrah | 2019 |  |
Rana Begum | 2019 |  |
Amanda Levete | 2021 |  |
Ryan Gander | 2021 |  |
Peter Barber | 2021 |  |
Michael Armitage | 2021 |  |
Hew Locke | 2022 |  |
Katherine Jones | 2022 |  |
Assemble | 2022 |  |
Clare Woods | 2022 |  |
Shirazeh Houshiary | 2022 |  |
Brian Griffiths | 2022 |  |
Veronica Ryan | 2022 |  |
Barbara Walker | 2022 |  |
Roger Hiorns | 2022 |  |
Hurvin Anderson | 28 March 2023 |  | [4]
Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson (6a architects) | 28 March 2023 |  | [5]
Nigel Coates | 31 May 2023 |  | [6]
Elsie Owusu | 31 May 2023 |  | [7]
Oona Grimes | 14 December 2023 |  | [8]
Goshka Macuga | 14 December 2023 |  | [9]
Claudette Johnson | 19 March 2024 |  | [10]
Helen Sear | 19 March 2024 |  | [11]
Sikelela Owen | 6 June 2024 |  | [12]
Caragh Thuring | 6 June 2024 |  | [13]
Margarita Gluzberg | 5 June 2025  |  | [14]
Liane Lang | 5 June 2025  |  | [15]

## Honorary Royal Academicians

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This is a partial list of Honorary Royal Academicians (Post-nominal: HonRA), 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

HonRA

| Preferred Media  | Notes  | Ref.

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Louis Gallait | 15 December 1869  | Painting  |  | [16]
Jean-Léon Gérôme | 15 December 1869  | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking  |  | [17]
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume | 15 December 1869  | Sculpture  |  | [18]
Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont | 15 December 1869  | Painting and Printmaking  |  | [19]
Ernest Meissonier | 15 December 1869  | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking  |  | [20]
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc | 15 December 1869  | Architecture  |  | [21]
Ludwig Knaus | 29 December 1882  | Painting  |  | [22]
Adolph Menzel | 12 February 1896  | Painting, Printmaking, and Illustration  |  | [23]
Jules Breton | 31 January 1899  | Painting  |  | [24]
Léon Bonnat | 27 January 1904  | Painting  |  | [25]
Emmanuel Frémiet | 27 January 1904  | Sculpture  |  | [26]
Jozef Israëls | 9 January 1906  | Painting and Printmaking  |  | [27]
Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 9 January 1906  | Sculpture  |  | [28]
Antonin Mercié | 23 January 1908  | Sculpture and Painting  |  | [29]
Jean-Paul Laurens | 27 January 1909  | Painting  |  | [30]
Albert Bartholomé | 1 March 1921  | Sculpture and Painting  |  | [31]
Paul-Albert Besnard | 1 March 1921  | Painting  |  | [32]
Ragnar Östberg | 10 June 1930  | Architecture  |  | [33]
Cass Gilbert | 5 December 1930  | Architecture  |  | [34]
Lucien Simon | 5 December 1930  | Painting  |  | [35]
Pierre Bonnard | 26 April 1940  | Painting, Printmaking, and Lithography  |  | [36]
Carl Milles | 26 April 1940  | Sculpture  |  | [37]
André Dunoyer de Segonzac | 24 April 1947  | Painting, Book illustration, and Printmaking  |  | [38]
Ivar Tengbom | 24 April 1947  | Architecture  |  | [39]
Walter Gropius | 20 April 1967  | Architecture  |  | [40]
Oskar Kokoschka | 24 April 1970  | Painting  |  | [41]
Giacomo Manzù | 24 April 1970  | Sculpture and Painting  |  |
Marc Chagall | 9 May 1979  | Painting  |  |
Joan Miró | 22 May 1980  | Painting and Sculpture  |  |
Josep Lluís Sert | 22 May 1980  | Architecture  |  | [42]
Balthus | 17 December 1981  | Painting  |  |
Stanley William Hayter | 17 December 1981  | Printmaking, Etching, Line engraving, and Painting  |  |
Eduardo Chillida | 18 May 1983  | Sculpture  |  |
Willem de Kooning | 18 May 1983  | Painting  |  |
Jean Dubuffet | 17 January 1985  | Painting  |  |
Ralph Erskine (architect) | 17 January 1985  | Architecture and Town-planning  |  |
Rufino Tamayo | 20 May 1985  | Painting  |  | [43]
Jørn Utzon | 20 May 1985  | Architecture  |  |
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas | 11 December 1986  | Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Theatre design, and Book illustration  |  | [44]
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | 4 May 1988  | Painting  |  |
Jasper Johns | 7 December 1989  | Painting and Printmaking  |  |
Richard Diebenkorn | 27 May 1992  | Painting  |  |
Antoni Tàpies | 27 May 1992  | Painting  |  |
I. M. Pei | 10 December 1993  | Architecture  |  |
Frank Stella | 10 December 1993  | Painting  |  |
Roy Lichtenstein | 23 May 1994  | Painting  |  |
Arata Isozaki | 23 May 1994  | Architecture  |  |
Richard Serra | 22 May 1995  | Sculpture  |  |
Anselm Kiefer | 29 May 1996  | Painting, Sculpture, Installation art, and Artists' books  |  |
Andrew Wyeth | 29 May 1996  | Painting  |  |
Roberto Matta | 19 May 1997  |  |  | [45]
Frank Gehry | 21 May 1998  | Architecture  |  |
Cy Twombly | 21 May 1998  | Painting  |  |
Mimmo Paladino | 26 May 1999  | Sculpture, Painting, and Printmaking  |  |
Georg Baselitz | 26 May 1999  | Painting and Sculpture  |  |
Robert Rauschenberg | 18 May 2000  | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking  |  |
Ellsworth Kelly | 24 May 2001  |  |  |
Bruce Nauman | 24 May 2001  | Sculpture, Photography, Video art, Drawing, Printmaking, and Performance  |  |
Tadao Ando | 29 May 2002  | Architecture  |  |
James Turrell | 29 May 2002  | Sculpture and Installation art  |  |
Daniel Libeskind | 23 May 2003  | Architecture  |  |
Edward Ruscha | 26 May 2004  | Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Drawing, Film making, and Artists' books  |  |
Renzo Piano | 31 May 2007  | Architecture  |  |
Rebecca Horn | 10 March 2009  | Sculpture, Installation art, Performance, and Film making  |  |
Julian Schnabel | 8 December 2009  | Painting and Film making  |  |
Jeff Koons | 16 March 2010  | Painting and Sculpture  |  |
Cindy Sherman | 16 March 2010  | Photography  |  |
Ai Weiwei | 26 May 2011  | Sculpture, Installation art, Architecture, and Film making  |  |
Per Kirkeby | 28 May 2011  | Painting and Sculpture  |  |
Marina Abramović | 27 September 2011  | Performance  |  |
Helen Frankenthaler | 27 September 2011  |  |  |
Rosemarie Trockel | 13 March 2013  | Sculpture and Painting  |  |
Marlene Dumas | 13 March 2013  | Painting and Drawing  |  |
Peter Zumthor | 12 March 2014  | Architecture  |  |
El Anatsui | 12 March 2014  | Sculpture  |  |
William Kentridge | 10 December 2014  | Sculpture, Film making, Graphic design, Engraving, and Animation  |  |
Jim Dine | 10 December 2014  | Painting, Watercolour, Assemblage, Happenings, Lithography, Photography, Sculpture, and Performance art  |  |
Olafur Eliasson | 9 March 2016  | Sculpture and Installation art  |  |
Jenny Holzer | 9 March 2016  | Printmaking and Sculpture  |  |
Bill Viola | 1 June 2017  | Installation art, Video art, and Film making  |  |
Kiki Smith | 1 June 2017  | Sculpture, Printmaking, and Artists' books  |  |
Wim Wenders | 19 March 2018  | Film making and Photography  |  |
Laurie Anderson | 19 March 2018  | Performance and Film making  |  |
Carmen Herrera | 30 May 2019  | Painting  |  |
Kara Walker | 30 May 2019  | Painting, Printmaking, Illustration, Film making, and Silhouettist  |  |
Pipilotti Rist | 9 September 2021  | Video art and Installation art  |  |
Ellen Gallagher | 9 September 2021  | Painting, Video art, and Film making  |  |
Kerry James Marshall | 13 December 2022 |  |  | [46]
Joan Jonas | 14 December 2023 |  |  | [47]
Toyo Ito | 14 December 2023 |  |  | [48]
Sarah Sze | 11 December 2024 |  |  | [49]

## See also

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* List of officers of the Royal Academy of Arts
* List of RWA Academicians – List of Royal West of England Academicians

## References

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