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James Finch
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Senior Curator (Collections) at the Royal Academy of Arts and c19/20 art historian. Posts relating to the RA and its collections. 🖼📚🎨
'Turner & Constable' at #Tate Britain- Turner's 'Dolbadern Castle' and Constable's 'A Boat Passing a Lock', both from the #royalacademyofarts collection, looking splendid in the first room!
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
'We Will Get Through This With Art'- painting by Bob and Roberta Smith on display at #royalacademyofarts as part of 'The Art Saleroom' this weekend.
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
#GertrudeHermes' 'The Warrior's Tomb' (1941) depicting a sinking submarine from above, is one of two works from the #RoyalAcademy collection currently on display in 'Artist as Witness' at the Russell-Cotes in Bournemouth russellcotes.com/event/artist...
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reading about Carol Weight's work as a war artist in @britishartjournal.bsky.social- this brilliant Athens street scene (1946) is in the Imperial War Museum collection
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
04/1156 One of a group of preparatory studies by Leighton for his painting 'Captive Andromache' in the Manchester Art Gallery. #royalacademyofarts
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A favourite from the brilliant #royalacademyofart collection of #Hogarth prints is this woodcut copy of his own 'Cruelty in Perfection' that he had made to appeal to the market for woodcuts (sold more cheaply and in greater quantities than the copper engravings he made himself). RA 17/3881
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Standout works by Academicians at the LAPADA fair on Berkeley Square- a brilliant Sickert, a tiny Constable sketch, an unusual Munnings, and an Augustus John drawing.
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Last week to see Turner In Light and Shade at the Whitworth, Manchester, which includes a group of RA loans- my favourite is this annotated impression of 'The Lake of Thun'. www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Some wonderful images of the RA's 1935-6 International Exhibition of Chinese Art included, and its wider significance ('the first comprehensive global show of Chinese art'- 420k visitors in 14 weeks!) explored in a new Durham University resource stories.durham.ac.uk/journey-of-a....
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Beautiful Peter Coker etching of undergrowth in Epping Forest from the RA collection
October 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
John Singer Sargent in Capri, Roger Fry in Rome, now on display at Tate Britain.
March 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Paul Maitland's work is too little-known but he was a wonderful painter of late 19th century London. His 'Factories bordering the River' recently went on display at Tate Britain.
February 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What paintings would you want for your artificial city? Turner's 'Peace-Burial at Sea', Sargent's 'Nonchaloir', and Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' in episode 2 of 'Paradise'
February 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Detail of Peter Kennard's 'Haywain with Cruise Missiles' in the exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery. Great to see the original photomontage, so often reproduced.
January 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A favourite work by a favourite artist: George Clausen's portrait of his brother-in-law Alfred George Webster. It's in the Usher Gallery, Lincoln, along with a collection of Webster's own paintings.
January 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sir Joshua Reynolds' studio experiments on display at the Royal Academy of Arts
January 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM