Sentences with phrase «royal academy president»

Highlights include several pieces by Frederic Leighton — the Victorian artist, Pre-Raphaelite champion and Royal Academy president who lived at the property and decorated the house in its stunning Arabic style.

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He is a former Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate galleries, and former President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Browne was CEO of BP in 1995 - 2007 and president of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering for five years up until 2011.

The letter was signed by the president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the president of the British Pharmacological Society, the president of the Royal College of

[3] He was educated at Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal, gaining a Regular Commission, before reading Politics at University College, Durham between 1981 and 1984, where he was elected President of the Durham Union Society in 1983 [4] and graduated with a 2:1 degree.

William Levelt, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy, thinks the answer to the Dutch crisis in secondary science education may lie in teachers enthusiastic — and well - informed — about research.

«The adoption of this law may set a dangerous precedent for patients looking to be treated with other unproven stem cell therapies in Europe and other countries,» remarked Hans Clevers, Professor of Molecular Genetics and President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dijkgraaf, who worked at IAS from 1991 until 1992, is a professor at the University of Amsterdam and president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences President José van Dijck says electing more women won't come at the expense of male candidates.

He also was a member and former president of the American Physical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the Royal Society and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

That is the question facing a new panel to be assembled by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) in Amsterdam, a composite board of many of the world's national scientific bodies, such as the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. «This will be an independent review,» says physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the IAC co-chairs, about the evaluation requested by the U.N. and the IPCC.

Moderated by: H.E. Ms Katalin Bogyay, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations, New York Welcoming remarks: László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and President of World Science Forum Speakers: Flavia Schlegel, Assistant Director - General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO Vladimir Rakhmanin, Assistant Director - General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, FAO Ádám Török, Secretary - General, Hungarian Academy of Sciences HRH Sumaya bint El Hassan, President, Royal Scientific Society, Jordan

President of European Academies Science Advisory Council and former Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society

László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and President of World Science Forum Presentation and Endorsement of the Declaration István Íjgyártó, Minister of State for Cultural and Science Diplomacy H.R.H. Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, President, Royal Scientific Society, Jordan

He served as president of the Royal Society (the U.K.'s science academy) from 2005 to 2010, and in 2006 he was nominated to the House of Lords.

Included in the Charter class are eight Nobel Laureates, two Fellows of the Royal Society, 12 presidents of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 50 members of the National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), 11 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, three recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, four recipients of the National Medal of Science, and 29 AAAS Fellows, among other major awards and distinctions.

Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA 1989 — 1991 Universitair Docent, Department of Clinical Immunology, University of Utrecht 1991 — 2002 Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Utrecht 2002 — 2012 Director of the Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 2002 — Professor in Molecular Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht 2012 — 2015 President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences 2015 — Director Research of the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology 2017 — Oncode Investigator

President of the Royal College of Pathologists between 1990 — 1993; Vice President and Biological Secretary of the Royal Society between 1993 — 1998; Founding President of the Academy of Medical Sciences between 1998 — 2002.

First woman president of the Italian Encyclopedia (1993 - 1998), Rita Levi - Montalcini was a member of the most prestigious scientific academies, such as the Italian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences in the United States and the Royal Society of London.

As President of RADA (Royal Academy of Drama and Arts)...

The 2013 Selectors are: Christopher Le Brun, artist and President of The Royal Academy of Art; Anne de Charmant, Director of Meadow Arts; David Cleaton - Roberts, Director of Alan Cristea gallery, London; Nathaniel Pitt, artist and curator.

Christopher Le Brun, PRA, painter, and president of the Royal Academy is a very busy man.

Another of Walker's students was Arthur Watson, now president of the Royal Scottish Academy; in the introduction to Downie's exhibition catalogue for her 2013 show Walk Through Resonant Landscape, the consequence of her Chinese residency and travels, Watson observes the contribution made by Walker to her students» ability to perceive and explore the unique landscape of Scotland and for the primacy of drawing: «With a base on the island of Tiree, [Frances Walker] ranged across the West Coast and Western Isles interrogating the coastal margins — the rhythm of pebbles across a storm beach or the fractured architecture of a rocky foreshore, meticulously recorded through a vocabulary of precise but unforgiving ink lines.»

The President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, gives Michael Berkeley a tour of this year's Summer Exhibition and shares his musical and artistic passions.

Hoyland's work in his finals show so shocked the Royal Academy Schools that the then president of the RA ordered it off the walls.

Speaking before the event, Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, said: «We are delighted to receive The Queen at the Royal Academy in her 90th year.

Entire Diploma show of abstract paintings taken down by order of President of Royal Academy, Sir Charles Wheeler, but Diploma awarded on strength of earlier figurative work.

The Hon. Hilary M. Weston, Windsor co-founder and Creative Director for The Gallery at Windsor, Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy, and Tim Marlow, Artistic Director of the Royal Academy have selected the program.

Christopher Le Brun, painter and president of the Royal Academy (RA) is set to exhibit a two - part show of new work, in the US next year.

Seeing these works, says Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy, «made my imagination come to life and realise what painting could be — very poetic, very moving, and very physical».

Redpath was elected President of the Scottish Society of Women Artists (1944 - 47) and in 1952 she became the first female Academician at the Royal Scottish Academy.

Hoyland is our finest abstract painter, yet his early experiments with abstraction when he was a student at the Royal Academy Schools so enraged the President of that august body that he ordered them off the walls.

Requesting the loan of Crucifixion to the Royal Academy's major 2003 exhibition, Philip King (President, Royal Academy 1999 - 2004) wrote, «Crucifixion is not only one of the artist's most ambitious and impressive works, it was also, significantly, the recipient of the Jerwood Prize, an accolade we hope to honour by including the work in the exhibition.

Reynolds made the painting at the height of his powers when he had just been elected the first President of the Royal Academy.

The committee is formed from the Council of Academicians (the governing body of the RA) and is traditionally chaired by the President of the Royal Academy.

He was the first president of the Royal Academy and a linchpin of The Club, an elite gang that included Samuel Johnson and fabled actor David Garrick.

The Royal Academy of Arts is governed by 80 Royal Academicians who are all practising painters, sculptors, engravers, printmakers, draughtsmen and architects and from whom they elect a President.

From 1984 to 1988 she was president of the Royal West of England Academy.

Delighting in colour for its own sake brought him notoriety when the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Charles Wheeler, ordered his paintings to be removed from the diploma show.

He was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011.

Everyone at that time still associated the Academy with that Royal Academy dinner [in 1949], when the President Alfred Munnings stood up and mocked contemporary art.

In Royal Academy parlance, the acronym PRA stands for President of the Royal Academy, and these three letters have been suffixed to the artist Christopher Le Brun since his election in 2011.

He also served as president of the Royal West of England Academy in the early 80s.

Le Brun was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011.

He was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011, the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds and the youngest since Lord Leighton in 1878.

By rights, Caro should have been made president of the Royal Academy.

King was elected Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 1990, a post which he held until his election as President of the Royal Academy in 1999 (King was President until 2004).

Spalding was elected President, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 2007 - 2010.

ENGLISH FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and muralist.

President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, is a practicing artist who received her BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2002), a Diploma in Painting from the Royal Academy of Arts (2005) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London (2008).