Unidentified furniture maker, The President's Chair, before 1793.
1380 mm x 760 mm x 800 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Unidentified furniture maker, The President's Chair, before 1793.
1380 mm x 760 mm x 800 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Unidentified furniture maker, The President's Chair, before 1793.
1380 mm x 760 mm x 800 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Unidentified furniture maker, The President's Chair, before 1793.
1380 mm x 760 mm x 800 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Unidentified furniture maker, The President's Chair, before 1793.
1380 mm x 760 mm x 800 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Unidentified furniture maker, The President's Chair, before 1793.
1380 mm x 760 mm x 800 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
The President's Chair, before 1793
Unidentified furniture maker
RA Collection: Art
The President's Chair is an ornate gilt bergere chair covered in red morocco leather with a shaped back and a loose buttoned seat cushion. The wooden frame is ornately carved and gilded with a central motif of a artist's palette with brushes, dividers, quills and scrolls which represent the three branches of art represented in the Royal Academy of Arts, namely painting, sculpture and architecture.
The date of this specially commissioned chair is not known but it is depicted in Benjamin West's Self-Portrait of 1793 (03/285) and in Henry Singleton's The Royal Academicians in General Assembly of 1795 (03/1310).
Object details
1380 mm x 760 mm x 800 mm
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