The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli
Baccio Bandinelli (1493–1560), a Florentine sculptor and life-long rival of Michelangelo, commissioned this engraving from the printmaker Enea Vico (1523–1567) to celebrate his achievements and pretensions as a... more
Academy Study of a Young Man
Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)
Louis XIV Visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences
Sébastien Leclerc I (French, Metz 1637–1714 Paris)
Charles III of Spain, as Protector of the Royal Academy of Mexico
Medalist: Geronimo Antonio Gil (1732–1798) Made in Mexico
![The ostrich, according to the Paris Academy of Science; Nest [or village as the Negroes call it] of the kubalot, or fisher bird.](https://cdn6.picryl.com/photo/1746/12/31/the-ostrich-according-to-the-paris-academy-of-science-nest-or-village-as-the-b75713-640.jpg "The ostrich, according to the Paris Academy of Science; Nest [or village as the Negroes call it] of the kubalot, or fisher bird.")
Academy of Ancient Music
Medalist: Richard Yeo (British, ca. 1720–1779 London)
An Academy by Lamplight
In a stone chamber containing the "Nymph with a Shell and Borghese Gladiator," six fancifully dressed young artists have assembled to sketch by lamp-light. The virtuoso realism—exemplified by the chipped stone ... more
The Royal Academy of Arts
A number of famous members of London’s Royal Academy are seen here before two nude models in a life studio. Sir Joshua Reynolds stands in the center with his ear trumpet, Benjamin West is to the left, his left ... more
The Infant Academy
Josiah Wedgwood (British, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent 1730–1795 Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent)
Gustavus III, King of Sweden (b. 1746, r. 1771–92) and Louise Ulrika, ...
Medalist: Carl Gustaf Fehrman (1746–1798)
Perspective view of the country between Wilmington and the Delaware - ...
Print shows panoramic view of farms and farmland with the Delaware River in the background.
The Life Class of the Vienna Academy
Members of the Vienna Academy are represented sketching, painting, and sculpting from a live model. Quadal, who specialized in portraits and animal subjects, sits sketching in the right foreground. Jacobé taugh... more
Dutch Academy
Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
![The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]](https://cdn2.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/the-sculptor-preparations-for-the-academy-old-joseph-nollekens-and-his-venus-bb180f-640.jpg "The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]")
The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and h...
Rowlandson caricatures Sir Joseph Nollekens, who sculptures of classical gods and contemporary busts helped popularize Neoclassical taste in Britain. The sculptor’s collection of plaster and terracotta casts an... more
Award of the Academy of Fine Arts Award, Rio de Janeiro
Medalist: Z. Ferrez (1831–) Possibly made in Portugal; Possibly made in Brazil
Alfred Comte de Vigny (1797–1863), French poet and Member of the Acade...
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was the most prolific and one of the most important French sculptors of the first half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his almost fifty-year career (1819–1856) David remained tr... more
The Drawing Academy at the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam
The Felix Meritis Society opened in Amsterdam in the late eighteenth century to promote the arts and sciences. (Its name translates as "happiness through merit.") The society’s drawing classroom was outfitted f... more
![[Military academy. Title sheet]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/military-academy-title-sheet-640.jpg "[Military academy. Title sheet]")
Gathering Flowers Academy
This ink tablet is from a sixty-four-tablet set (30.76.216–.279) commissioned by the Jiaqing emperor from the Studio for Appreciating the Antique (Jiangu Zhai) manufactory of the Wang Jinsheng family in Huizhou... more
Portrait of François Coppée of the French Academy & Legion of Honor
Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (French, Paris 1856–1909 Neuilly)
Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imper...
Print showing panoramic view of St. Petersburg, including Academy of Arts, colleges, Cronstad (i.e., Kronshtadt), warehouses, and the Gottorp Globe.
Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy, Somerset House (Microcosm of L...
Designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy, Somerset House
Caricature of large group of men drawing nude male model.
Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy, Somerset House
Designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (Copy after an...
Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/88–1839)
Portrait of Sam Lovill, the Porter at the Royal Academy
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking North
Attributed to George Catlin (1796–1872)
United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking South
Attributed to George Catlin (1796–1872)
![Edinburgh Academy from "Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views; or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century; exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, & picturesque scenery of the Scottish metropolis & its environs, from original drawings by Mr. T. H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical & critical illustrations [by John Britton]"](https://cdn8.picryl.com/photo/1829/12/31/edinburgh-academy-from-modern-athens-displayed-in-a-series-of-views-or-edinburgh-8dddf5-640.jpg "Edinburgh Academy from \"Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views; or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century; exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, & picturesque scenery of the Scottish metropolis & its environs, from original drawings by Mr. T. H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical & critical illustrations [by John Britton]\"")
Edinburgh Academy from "Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views;...
This image has been taken from scan 000161 from "Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views; or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century; exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquiti... more
Royal Academy of Arts Medal
Medalist: William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845), French editor, philosopher, sta...
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was the most prolific and one of the most important French sculptors of the first half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his almost fifty-year career (1819–1856) David remained tr... more
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / engd. by C.G. Childs.
Print shows the front façade of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts building, with tree on the left, circular drive and lawn in front; labeled Share $50. No. 17. It is inscribed to "Francis Hopkinson" and... more
Henri Auguste Barbier (1805–1882), French poet, Member of the Academy
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was the most prolific and one of the most important French sculptors of the first half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his almost fifty-year career (1819–1856) David remained tr... more
Xavier Marmier (1809–1892), French soldier, traveler, Member of the Ac...
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was the most prolific and one of the most important French sculptors of the first half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his almost fifty-year career (1819–1856) David remained tr... more
![Rittenhouse academy. Order of exercises for Saturday afternoon, July 29, 1843. [Washington, 1843.].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1843/01/01/rittenhouse-academy-order-of-exercises-for-saturday-afternoon-july-29-1843-640.jpg "Rittenhouse academy. Order of exercises for Saturday afternoon, July 29, 1843. [Washington, 1843.].")
![Order of exercizes for Rittenhouse academy, July 27, 1847 .... [Washington, D.C.] Wm. Q. Force, Print. 1847.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1847/01/01/order-of-exercizes-for-rittenhouse-academy-july-27-1847-washington-dc-wm-q-640.jpg "Order of exercizes for Rittenhouse academy, July 27, 1847 .... [Washington, D.C.] Wm. Q. Force, Print. 1847.")
Monument to the memory of the "Herveor of Tripoli." The birth of the A...
Photograph shows the Tripoli Naval Monument on the grounds of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Moved in 1860 to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
![Franklin academy ... A select school for boys. number strictly limited to twenty-four ... Washington. Polkinhorn, Pr. D St. bet. 6th & 7th Street. [1851?].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1851/01/01/franklin-academy-a-select-school-for-boys-number-strictly-limited-to-twenty-640.jpg "Franklin academy ... A select school for boys. number strictly limited to twenty-four ... Washington. Polkinhorn, Pr. D St. bet. 6th & 7th Street. [1851?].")
United States Military Academy: Song of the Graduates
After James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
View from the French Academy at the Villa Medici
Trained at the Venetian Academy as a vedutista, a painter of perspectival city views, Caneva moved to Rome in 1838 and quickly distinguished himself amid an international group of artists who gathered at the fa... more
![[Md. - Annapolis - U.S. Naval Academy, 1853: view of the Battery from river]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1853/01/01/md-annapolis-us-naval-academy-1853-view-of-the-battery-from-river-640.jpg "[Md. - Annapolis - U.S. Naval Academy, 1853: view of the Battery from river]")
![[Md. - Annapolis - U.S. Naval Academy, 1853: "Middies learning the ropes...on board the CONSTITUTION]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1853/01/01/md-annapolis-us-naval-academy-1853-middies-learning-the-ropeson-board-the-constitution-640.jpg "[Md. - Annapolis - U.S. Naval Academy, 1853: \"Middies learning the ropes...on board the CONSTITUTION]")
![[Md. - Annapolis - U.S. Naval Academy, 1853: (2 scenes - "general view" and "interior of the Battery - battery practice and fencing")]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1853/01/01/md-annapolis-us-naval-academy-1853-2-scenes-general-view-and-interior-of-the-640.jpg "[Md. - Annapolis - U.S. Naval Academy, 1853: (2 scenes - \"general view\" and \"interior of the Battery - battery practice and fencing\")]")
![Central Academy, Washington City ... This institution has been in successful operation for nearly six years, and is permanently located in the building formerly known at the Medical College, corner of E. and 10th streets ... [Washington] H. Polk](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1855/01/01/central-academy-washington-city-this-institution-has-been-in-successful-operation-640.jpg "Central Academy, Washington City ... This institution has been in successful operation for nearly six years, and is permanently located in the building formerly known at the Medical College, corner of E. and 10th streets ... [Washington] H. Polk")
![The Western academy, corner seventeenth and I streets, Washington, D. C. A select school will be opened on the first Monday in September for boys. Number of pupils limited to twenty-five ... Washington, July 26 [1855?] [Washington, D. C.] Polkin](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1855/01/01/the-western-academy-corner-seventeenth-and-i-streets-washington-d-c-a-select-640.jpg "The Western academy, corner seventeenth and I streets, Washington, D. C. A select school will be opened on the first Monday in September for boys. Number of pupils limited to twenty-five ... Washington, July 26 [1855?] [Washington, D. C.] Polkin")
![First exhibition Monday, January 28th 1856. Academy Hall ... China & Japan illustrated. A magnificient series of panoramic pictures sketches painted by George R. West and Wm. Hiene ... [New York] Herald Print 1856.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1856/01/01/first-exhibition-monday-january-28th-1856-academy-hall-china-and-japan-illustrated-640.jpg "First exhibition Monday, January 28th 1856. Academy Hall ... China & Japan illustrated. A magnificient series of panoramic pictures sketches painted by George R. West and Wm. Hiene ... [New York] Herald Print 1856.")
![New York Free Academy, corner of Lexington Ave., at 23rd St. [NYC]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1856/01/01/new-york-free-academy-corner-of-lexington-ave-at-23rd-st-nyc-640.jpg "New York Free Academy, corner of Lexington Ave., at 23rd St. [NYC]")
Signora Frezzolini, prima donna, Academy of Music, Fourteenth Street, ...
Signora Frezzolini, half-length portrait, facing left.
![[Academy of Design.]](https://cdn6.picryl.com/photo/2016/03/10/academy-of-design-75f8b2-640.jpg "[Academy of Design.]")
