11 Facts About Royal Academy

Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

Success of St Martin's Lane Royal Academy led to the formation of the Society of Artists of Great Britain and the Free Society of Artists.

Royal Academy was initially housed in cramped quarters in Pall Mall, although in 1771 it was given temporary accommodation for its library and schools in Old Somerset House, then a royal palace.

The Royal Academy moved in 1837 to Trafalgar Square, where it occupied the east wing of the recently completed National Gallery .

Royal Academy receives funding from neither the State nor the Crown, and operates as a charity.

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Under the direction of former exhibitions secretary Sir Norman Rosenthal, the Royal Academy has hosted ambitious exhibitions of contemporary art.

In 2004, the Royal Academy attracted media attention for a series of financial scandals and reports of a feud between Rosenthal and other senior staff.

Academy hosts an annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of new art, which is a well-known event on the London social calendar.

Royal Academy Schools was the first institution to provide professional training for artists in Britain.

Royal Academy argued that such a training would form artists capable of creating works of high moral and artistic worth.

The Royal Academy made Sir Francis Newbolt the first Honorary Professor of Law in 1928.