RA Collection: Art
Two photographs by an unidentified photographer working for Topical Press Agency from a group of eight relating to the 1934 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
10/1237 shows Academicians, from left to right Frederick William Elwell, Harold Knight, Mark Fisher, Sydney Lee, Sir Frank Short, Richard Jack, Sir David Young Cameron and Dame Laura Knight. They are standing in front of Laura Knight's oil 'Lamorna Birch and his Daughters'.
10/1235 shows William Russell Flint R.A. taking a cup of beef tea, the tradition beverage for members of the 'hanging' committee.