The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canadian arts-related organization that was founded in 1880.

History 1880 to 1890

The title of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts was received from Queen Victoria on 16 July 1880. The Governor General of Canada, John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, was its first patron. The painter Lucius O'Brien was its first president.

The objects of the Academy as stated in the 1881 publication of the organization's constitution were three-fold: First - the institution of a National Gallery at the seat of Government; Second - the holding of Exhibitions in the principal cities of the Dominion; Third - the establishment of Schools of Art and Design.

In the same publication, two levels of membership were described: Academicians and Associates. No more than forty individuals could be Academicians at one time, while the number of Associates was not limited. All Academicians were required to give an example of their work to the collection of the National Gallery. They were also permitted to show more pieces in Academy-sponsored exhibitions than Associates.

The inaugural exhibition was held in Ottawa and the first Academicians were inducted, including the first woman Academician, Charlotte Schreiber. Through the next 10 years, the Academy held annual exhibitions, often in cooperation with regional artists' societies. Exhibitions in Toronto were a joint project of the Academy and the Ontario Society of Artists, while those held in Montreal were held in partnership with the Art Association of Montreal. Exhibitions were also held in St. John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Additional academicians and associates were added each year until the membership had more than doubled by 1890. Members were drawn from all areas of the country and included anglophones and francophones. Men continued to out-number women and those female members were identified as painters not as designers or architects.

As Academicians joined, they donated an example of their work to the National Gallery of Canada, building the collection of the as-yet unincorporated institution. A temporary home was found for the collection in a building next to the Supreme Court of Canada and the first curator, John W.H. Watts, RCA was appointed to begin organizing exhibitions.

The third objective—to encourage the teaching of art and design in Canada—was found to be more challenging to address with the limited financial resources available to them.

1891 to present Canadian landscape painter Homer Watson was elected as an associate, became a full member and later became president of the Academy.

In 1906, artist George Agnew Reid was elected president of the Academy. He held this position until 1909.

The centennial year of the Academy was honoured by a 35 cent, 3 colour postage stamp. The stamp features an image of the original centre block of the Parliament Buildings and the text "Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1880–1980", with the name "Thomas Fuller", a member of the Academy and the Dominion Architect of Canada who had designed the original building.

Members The Academy is composed of members from across Canada representing over twenty visual arts disciplines. This list is not inclusive. See also :Category:Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

1880 to 1890

Name Gender Discipline 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1886 1887 1888 1890Aaron Allan Edson male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCAWilliam Nichol Cresswell male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCA Daniel Fowler (1810–1894) male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAJohn Arthur Fraser (1838–1898) male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCAJames Griffiths (1825–1896) male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAJoseph Arthur Eugene Hamel (1845–1932) male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARobert Harris male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAJohn William Hopkins (1825–1905) male architectRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAHenry Langley male architectRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCALucius Richard O'Brien male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAWilliam Raphael male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAHenry Sandham male painterRCARCARCARCARCA (non-resident)RCA (non-resident)RCA (non-resident)RCA (non-resident)RCA (non-resident)Charlotte Schreiber female painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCAFrançois Van Luppen (1838–1899) male sculptorRCARCARCARCARCARCAJames Smith (1832–1918) male architectRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAThomas Seaton Scott male architectRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAWilliam George Storm male architectRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAThomas Mower Martin male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAForshaw Day male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAJohn Colin Forbes (1846–1925) male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCA male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAJohn William Hurrell Watts (1850–1917) male designerRCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAHomer Watson male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCARCAThomas W. Fuller male architectRCARCARCARCARCARCARCAAlexander Cowper Hutchison (1838–1922) male architectRCARCARCARCARCARCARCAMarmaduke Matthews male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCAJohn George Howard male architectRCA retiredRCA retiredRCA retiredRCA retiredRCA retiredAntoine Plamondon male painterRCA retiredRCA retiredRCA retiredRCA retiredRCA retiredRCA retired Napoléon Bourassa male painterRCARCARCARCARCARCA William Armstrong male painterARCAARCAARCAARCARobert Richard Baigent (1830–1890) male painterARCAARCAARCA Harrington Bird (1846–1936) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAFrederick Alexander Turner Dunbar (1849–1921) male sculptorARCAARCAARCAARCA Robert Ford Gagen (1847–1926) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAMichael Hannaford (1832–1891) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAGeorge Harvey (1846–1910) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCALouis-Philippe Hébert male sculptorARCAARCAARCARCARCARCAFrances Bannerman female painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAHenry Martin (1832–1902) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAJohn Christopher Miles (1837–1911) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAAndrew Dickson Patterson (1854–1930) male painter ARCAARCAARCAARCARCARCAPaul Peel male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAWilliam Revell (1830–1902) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAJoseph Thomas Rolph (1831–1916) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAWilliam Ruel male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAFrances Elwood Richards (1852–1934) female painterARCAARCAARCAEdward Scrope Shrapnel (1845-1920) male painter ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAFrederic Marlett Bell-Smith male painter ARCAARCAARCARCARCARCAEdward Buckingham Shuttleworth (1842–1934) male painter ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAJames L. Weston (1815–1896) male painterARCAARCAARCARobert R. Whale male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAWilliam Doughtie (1846–1883) male designerARCA Eugène-Étienne Taché male designer ARCAARCAARCAARCAAlfred H. Howard (1854–1916) male designerARCAARCARCARCARCARCARobert McCausland (1856–1923) male designer ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCA James Balfour male architect ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCACharles Baillairgé male architect ARCAARCA Edmund Burke male architect ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCA Walter Chesterton (1845–1931) male architect ARCAARCAARCAARCA ARCA Joseph Connolly male architect ARCAARCAARCARCA RCA RCA Frank Darling male architect ARCAARCAARCARCARCARCADavid Brash Dick (1846–1925) male architect ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAreAndrew Dewar (architect) (1846 – ) male architectARCAARCAARCAARCA ARCAG. Ernest Fairweather male architectARCAARCA Robert Gage male architect ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCA (1851–1915) male architect ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAHenry Bauld Gordon male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAWilliam Critchlow Harris male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAWilliam Irving (1830–1883) male architectARCAARCA John Thomas Charles McKean (1840–1911) male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAARCACharles Willer Mulligan (1846–1908) male architectARCAARCAARCAJames Nelson (1831–1913) male architect ARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAAlmond E. Paull (1824–1902) male architectARCAARCAARCA Alexander Denton Steele (1841–1890) male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAWilliam Stewart (1832–1907) male architect ARCAARCADavid Stirling male architect ARCAARCAARCA Walter Reginald Strickland (1841–1915) male architect ARCAARCAARCARichard Cunningham Windeyer (1831–1900) male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAOtto Reinhold Jacobi male painterRCARCARCARCARCAWilliam Brymner male painter ARCAARCARCARCARCAArthur Cox (1840–1917) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAARCAJames A. Sydney Crocker male painterARCAARCAPercy Franklin Woodcock (1855–1936) male painter ARCAARCARCA RCARCAWilliam Tutin Thomas male architect ARCA Alfred Boisseau (1823–1901) male painterARCAARCAARCAARCAWilliam Cruikshank male painterARCAARCAJohn Wycliffe Lowes Forster male painter ARCA ARCA ARCA ARCAJames Kerr-Lawson (1865–1939) male painter ARCA ARCA ARCA ARCAJohn Charles Pinhey (1860–1912) male painter ARCA ARCA ARCA ARCAGeorge Agnew Reid male painter ARCA ARCA ARCA ARCAJohn Ellis male designer ARCA ARCA ARCA John Thompson Willing male designerARCAARCAARCA Henry Frederick Busch (1826–1902) male architectARCAARCA ARCA Samuel George Curry male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAAlexander Francis Dunlop male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAGeorge F. Durand (1850–1889) male architectARCAARCAARCARobert McNicol (fl. 1881–83) male architectARCAARCAARCAAndrew Taylor male architectARCAARCAARCAARCAHamilton MacCarthy male sculptorARCAARCARCAFrederick Charles S. Gordon (1856–1924) male painterARCAARCAEmma S. Windeat (fl. 1884–1926) female painterARCAARCA Name discipline 1896 William Edwin Atkinson (Canadian painter, 1862–1926) painter ARCA George Théodore Berthon painter RCA Franklin Brownell (1857–1946) painter RCA George Robert Bruenech (1851–1916) painter ARCA Frederick Sproston Challener, (1869–1959) painter ARCAGertrude Spurr Cutts (1858–1941) painter ARCAEdmond Dyonnet painter ARCAMary Alexandra Eastlake née Bell (1864–1951) painter ARCAHarriet Ford (1859–1939) painter ARCAJames Lillie Graham (1873–1971) painter ARCAEdmund Wyly Grier painter RCAJohn A. Hammond painter RCASarah Holden painter ARCAWilliam R. Hope (1863–1931) painter ARCAFarquhar McGillivray Knowles (1859–1932) painter ARCALaura Muntz Lyall painter ARCAHamilton MacCarthy sculptor RCA Charles Macdonald Manly (1855–1924) painter ARCAJoseph W. Power architect ARCAMary Augusta Hiester Reid (1854–1921) painter ARCAWilliam Albert Sherwood (1855–1919) painter ARCAW. L. Symons architect ARCAS. H. Townsend architect ARCASydney Strickland Tully (1869–1911) painter ARCAFrederick Arthur Verner painter ARCACarl Henry Ahrens (1863–1936) painter ARCAPaul Giovanni Wickson (1860–1922) painter ARCACurtis Williamson (1867–1944) painter ARCAEmma S. Windeat (fl. 1884–1926) painter ARCA

Academy membership in 1907 Academicians

Associates

Inducted in 1971 Alfred Pellan , artist

Inducted in 1973

Armand Tatossian, painter

Inducted in 1974 John Max, photographer

Inducted in 1976

Richard Gorman, painter Ruth Gowdy McKinley, first potter elected to Academy Peter H. Kolisnyk, sculptor

Inducted in 1990 Suezan Aikins, printmaker

Inducted in 1991

Inducted in 1999

Inducted in 2002

Inducted in 2004

Scott Plear, painting

Gregory Henriquez, architect Orland Larson, goldsmith

Inducted in 2005 Aiko Suzuki, textile and visual artist.

Inducted in 2006

Inducted in 2007

Inducted in 2008 Catherine Farish, printmaking Susan Collett, ceramics

Inducted in 2009

AA Bronson Sara Diamond Marius Dubois Christian Eckart Faye Heavyshield Garry Neill Kennedy Rita McKeough Mary Scott John Will Justin Wonnacott

Inducted in 2010

Inducted in 2011

Inducted in 2012 Andre Bergeron Sandra Bromley Tara Bryan Ginette Caron Sean Caulfield Naomi London Sarah Maloney Jean Pierre Morin Nadia Myre Anna Torma Eva Lapka, ceramics

Inducted in 2013 Clarence Dick Christos Dikeakos, Charles Elliott Lynda Gammon Rusdi Genest Chief Tony Hunt David MacWilliam Les Manning Barbara Paterson Susan G. Scott Andrew Wright

Inducted in 2014 Diane Bisson Marc Boutin Luben Boykov Karen Cantine Donna Clare Cora Cluett Gene Dub, architect Frédéric Metz Louie Palu, photographer Claude Provencher