Thomas
Rowlandson, “R.A.’s of Genius reflecting on the true line of Beauty,
at the Life Academy Somerset House.”
At the boxes, from left: Benjamin West; Thomas Lawrence; Martin Archer Shee (all Presidents of the R.A.).
Among the “front-benchers”: Richard Westmacott (half-brother); John Flaxman (both Professors of Sculpture).
At easel right: Benjamin Robert Haydon (iconoclast non-R.A.), and at his feet “C. W.,” certainly the author.
At the boxes, from left: Benjamin West; Thomas Lawrence; Martin Archer Shee (all Presidents of the R.A.).
Among the “front-benchers”: Richard Westmacott (half-brother); John Flaxman (both Professors of Sculpture).
At easel right: Benjamin Robert Haydon (iconoclast non-R.A.), and at his feet “C. W.,” certainly the author.