Unidentified photographer, Students of the Royal Academy Schools, ca. 1906.
Gelatin silver print. 162 mm x 213 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Students of the Royal Academy Schools, ca. 1906
Unidentified photographer
RA Collection: Art
The photograph shows students at the Royal Academy School ca.1906. According to the School's register and names written on the back of the photograph, they are likely to be:
Back row (men) Left to right, Frank Short, Hugh St. Pierre Bunbury, Copes? killed in 1914-18 war, Ernest Stafford Carlos (killed in war), Francis Edward St. John Crisp, (St. John Wood Schools + R.A.) R.A. Gold Medalist (killed in 1914-18 war).
2nd row from back, left to right (men), Maddison Brauch Fisher, Ernest Townsend, Kazunori Ishibashi, Archibald Follett Birch, Frank Ernest Beresford.
3rd row from back, left to right (women) Oriane Sophy Tyndale, Marjorie Curwen, Irene Sibyl Maude Roxby, Daisy Radcliffe Clague (married Beresford), Sybil Cooper, Hilda Fraser Parker, Edith Margaret Leeson (Mrs Everett married in U.S.A. - to England), Jessie Holliday (moved to U.S.A. married Dance?).
Front row, left to right, women, Marianne Henrietta Wilhelmina? Robilliard (Gold Medallist + travelling scholarship), Amy Joanna Fry, Margaret Isabel Dovaston, Florence Aline Rodway (came from Australia), Rose Ethel Wright, daughter of Robert Wright, an old R.A. student and married John D. Walker.
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162 mm x 213 mm
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