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Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
© TRACEY EMIN. All rights reserved, DACS 2013. Photo: KERRY RYAN.
José Chávez Morado, 'Carnaval en Huejotzingo (Carnival in Huejotzingo)' (detail), 1939. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 96.5 cm. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Loyal Davis © DACS 2013.
Richard Rogers Partnership, Lloyd’s of London, 1978-86. © Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com & Piano + Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1971-77. © Francois Le Diascorn / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Until 25 November 2007
In the John Madejski Fine Rooms
John Bellany RA (b. 1942), Self-portrait. Oil on board This exhibition explores the rich variety of representations of artists in the Royal Academy’s collection. These range from C. R. Leslie’s tiny, intimate picture of his friend John Constable, via A. G. Walker’s depictions of studio life, to grand formal images such as Giuseppe Ceracchi’s bust of Reynolds, George Frederic Watts’s portrait of Lord Leighton and Charles West Cope’s magnificent Victorian group, ‘The Council of the Royal Academy’. Alongside these are Thomas Gainsborough and John Bellany’s revealing self-portraits, Sir Joshua Reynolds’s depiction of his theatrically dressed studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi and an early portrait of Laura Knight by her husband-to-be, Harold Knight. Together these works offer a fascinating glimpse of artists’ lives, aspirations and achievements over the last 250 years.
Opening times of the John Madejski Fine Rooms
1pm-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday
10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday
Closed Monday
Free guided tour 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 3pm Wednesday; 11.30am Saturday
