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John Constable RA, The Leaping Horse, 1825. Oil on canvas.

John Constable's The Leaping Horse is the latest work to star in the 'Masterpiece a Month' exhibition, celebrating 200 years of the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

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Hidden treasures: Uncovering the RA's architectural casts

The First Year Studios at the RA Schools with the panels removed to reveal the architectural casts.

The summer of 2012 has been an exciting moment, almost an archaeological one, at the Royal Academy Schools. A large collection of plaster casts of architectural elements – assembled in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for teaching purposes, and now forming part of the Royal Academy’s significant cast collection – was revealed from behind panels in the First Year Studios.

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Early Royal Academy exhibition catalogues digitised and available to explore on the RA website

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The catalogues of the Royal Academy’s ‘Winter Exhibitions’ from their inception in 1870 to 1939 have been digitised and made available to search and browse online via the RA Collections website. The RA's Adam Waterton introduces some of his favourite finds.

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Video: Constable in Hampstead

Constable in Hampstead

In this video, Rebecca Lodge of Burgh House takes us on a stroll across Hampstead Heath and explains how this pocket of countryside just a stone's through from the city was so important in Constable's life and work. All of the oil sketches featured in the video are from the Royal Academy's Collections.

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Royal Academy's 'Leda and the swan' on display in France

Black chalk on paper, c.1800 X c. 2560 mm. Original attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti. © Royal Academy of Arts, London.

One of the treasures of the Royal Academy Collections is now on display in a new exhibition at the Chateau of Fontainebleau near Paris.

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Rare unveiling of RA's Battle of Waterloo drawing

Research Curator Helena Bonett of the Royal Academy's Library and Collections department shines a light on one of the hidden treasures of the Royal Academy's Collections.

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‘Deeds not words’: Suffragettes and the Summer Exhibition

The full-size bronze was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin on 6 March 1930 and is located in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster. © Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo: RA / Paul Highnam.

The Summer Exhibition of 1914 saw attacks by militant suffragettes on three works of art. Research Curator Helena Bonett delves into the Royal Academy’s archive to find out how the Academy, and the public, reacted.

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Setting a scene: Russell Westwood and the Royal Academy

© Estate of Russell Westwood. Photo: RA.

Running away to sea may seem like an unlikely beginning for a future photographer, but this was exactly the step that the sixteen-year-old Edward Aubrey Russell Westwood took, joining Gravesend Sea School and then the Merchant Navy.

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