| Name |
Elected |
Notes |
Ref. |
| John Baker | 1768 | Foundation member |
|
| George Barret |
| Francesco Bartolozzi |
| Agostino Carlini | Foundation member; Keeper 1783–90 |
| Charles Catton | Foundation member |
| Mason Chamberlin |
| William Chambers | Foundation member; first Treasurer 1768–96 |
| Giovanni Battista Cipriani | Foundation member |
| Francis Cotes |
| George Dance the Younger | Foundation member; Professor of Architecture 1798–1805 |
| Nathaniel Dance-Holland | Foundation member |
| Thomas Gainsborough |
| John Gwynn |
| Francis Hayman | Foundation member; first Academy librarian 1770–1776 |
| Nathaniel Hone | Foundation member |
| Angelica Kauffman |
| Jeremiah Meyer |
| George Michael Moser | Foundation member; first Keeper 1768–83 |
| Mary Moser | Foundation member |
| Francis Milner Newton | Foundation member; first Secretary 1768–88 |
| Edward Penny | Foundation member; first Professor of Painting 1768–82 |
| Joshua Reynolds | Foundation member; President 1768–92 |
| John Inigo Richards | Foundation member; Secretary 1788–1810 |
| Paul Sandby | Foundation member |
| Thomas Sandby | Foundation member; first Professor of Architecture 1768–98 |
| Dominic Serres | Foundation member; Librarian 1792–93 |
| Peter Toms | Foundation member |
| William Tyler |
| Samuel Wale | Foundation member; first Professor of Perspective 1768–1786; Librarian 1782–86 |
| Benjamin West | Foundation member; President 1792–1805 & 1806–20 |
| Richard Wilson | Foundation member; Librarian 1776–1782 |
| Joseph Wilton | Foundation member; Librarian 1786–1790; Keeper 1790–1803 |
| Richard Yeo | Foundation member |
| Francesco Zuccarelli |
| William Hoare | 1769 | Nominated member |
| Johann Zoffany |
| Edward Burch | 1771 | Librarian 1794–1814 |
| Richard Cosway | |
| Joseph Nollekens | 1772 |
| James Barry | 1773 | Professor of Painting 1782–1799 |
| Matthew William Peters | 1777 | Honorary Chaplain 1784–1788 |
| John Singleton Copley | 1779 | |
| John Bacon | 1778 |
| Philip James de Loutherbourg | 1781 |
| George Stubbs |
| Edmund Garvey | 1783 |
| John Francis Rigaud | 1784 |
| Thomas Banks | 1785 |
| Joseph Farington |
| James Wyatt | President 1805–1806 |
| William Hodges | 1787 | |
| James Northcote |
| John Opie | 1788 | Professor of Painting 1805–1807 |
| John Russell | |
| William Hamilton | 1789 |
| Henry Fuseli | 1790 | Professor of Painting 1799–1805 & 1810–25; Keeper 1804–1825 |
| Ozias Humphrey | 1791 | |
| Francis Wheatley |
| John Yenn | Treasurer 1796–1820 |
| John Webber | |
| Francis Bourgeois | 1793 |
| Robert Smirke |
| Thomas Lawrence | 1794 | President 1820–30 |
| Richard Westall | |
| Thomas Stothard | Librarian 1814–1834 |
| John Hoppner | 1795 | |
| Sawrey Gilpin | 1797 |
| William Beechey | 1798 | Associate RA: 1793 |
| Thomas Daniell | 1799 | |
| Henry Tresham | Professor of Painting 1807–1809 |
| John Flaxman | 1800 | First Professor of Sculpture 1810–26 |
| Martin Archer Shee | President 1830–50 |
| John Soane | 1802 | Professor of Architecture 1806–37 |
| J. M. W. Turner | Professor of Perspective 1807–37 |
| Henry Thomson | 1804 | Keeper 1825–27 |
| William Owen | 1806 | |
| Samuel Woodforde | 1807 |
| Henry Howard | 1808 | Secretary 1811–47; Professor of Painting 1833–1847 |
| Thomas Phillips | Professor of Painting 1825–32 |
| Augustus Wall Callcott | 1810 | |
| Henry Bone | 1811 |
| James Ward |
| David Wilkie |
| Richard Westmacott | Professor of Sculpture 1827–56 |
| Robert Smirke | Treasurer 1820–50 |
| Philip Reinagle | 1812 | |
| William Theed | 1813 |
| George Dawe | 1814 |
| Edward Bird | 1815 |
| Henry Raeburn |
| Alfred Edward Chalon | 1816 |
| John Jackson | 1817 |
| Francis Leggatt Chantrey | 1818 |
| William Hilton | 1819 | Keeper 1827–39 |
| William Collins | 1820 | Librarian 1840–42 |
| Abraham Cooper | |
| Edward Hodges Baily | 1821 |
| Richard Cook | 1822 |
| William Daniell |
| Ramsay Richard Reinagle | 1823 |
| George Jones | 1824 | Librarian 1834–1840; Keeper 1840–50 |
| Jeffry Wyatville | |
| Charles Robert Leslie | 1826 | Professor of Painting 1847–52 |
| Henry William Pickersgill | Librarian 1856–64 |
| William Wilkins | Professor of Architecture 1837–39 |
| William Etty | 1828 | |
| John Constable | 1829 |
| Charles Lock Eastlake | 1830 | Librarian 1842–44; President 1850–65 |
| Edwin Henry Landseer | 1831 | |
| William Allan | 1835 |
| Clarkson Stanfield | 1835 |
| Charles Robert Cockerell | 1836 | Professor of Architecture 1839–59 |
| John Gibson | |
| John Peter Gandy | 1838 |
| Frederick Richard Lee |
| Thomas Uwins | Librarian 1844–55 |
| Daniel Maclise | 1840 | |
| Solomon Alexander Hart | Professor of Painting 1854–63; Librarian 1864–81 |
| William Frederick Witherington | |
| John James Chalon | 1841 |
| Philip Hardwick | Treasurer 1850–61 |
| David Roberts | |
| Charles Barry | 1842 |
| William Charles Ross | 1843 |
| John Prescott Knight | 1844 | Secretary 1847–1873; Professor of Perspective 1852–1860 |
| Charles Landseer | 1845 | Keeper 1851–73 |
| John Rogers Herbert | 1846 | |
| Thomas Webster | |
| Charles West Cope | 1848 | Professor of Painting 1866–75 |
| William Dyce | |
| Richard Westmacott | 1849 | Professor of Sculpture 1857–68 |
| John Watson Gordon | 1851 | |
| Francis Grant | President 1866–78 |
| Richard Redgrave | |
| William Powell Frith | 1853 |
| Samuel Cousins | 1855 |
| Frederick Richard Pickersgill | 1857 | Keeper 1873–1887 |
| John Henry Foley | 1858 | |
| Sydney Smirke | 1859 | Treasurer 1861–1874; Professor of Architecture 1860–1865 |
| Augustus Egg | 1860 | |
| George Gilbert Scott | Professor of Architecture 1866–1873 |
| Edward William Cooke | 1863 | |
| William Boxall |
| John Everett Millais | President 1896 |
| Henry Weekes | Professor of Sculpture 1868–76 |
| John Callcott Horsley | 1864 | Treasurer 1882–1897 |
| Carlo Marochetti | 1866 | |
| George Richmond |
| Philip Hermogenes Calderon | 1867 | Keeper 1887–98 |
| Thomas Sidney Cooper | |
| George Frederic Watts |
| Frederic Leighton | 1868 | President 1878–96 |
| Edward Middleton Barry | 1869 | Professor of Architecture 1873–80; Treasurer 1874–80 |
| James Sant | |
| Richard Ansdell | 1870 |
| William Charles Thomas Dobson | 1871 |
| Lumb Stocks |
| George Edmund Street | Professor of Architecture 1880–81; Treasurer 1880–81 |
| Frederick Walker | |
| Edward Armitage | 1872 | Professor of Painting 1875–82 |
| Thomas Woolner | 1874 | Professor of Sculpture 1877–78 |
| John Gilbert | 1876 | |
| Edward Poynter | President 1896–1918 |
| William Quiller Orchardson | 1877 | |
| Richard Norman Shaw | Treasurer 1882 |
| Henry Stacy Marks | 1878 | |
| William Frederick Yeames | Librarian 1896–1911 |
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema | 1879 | |
| John Evan Hodgson | Librarian 1882–95; Professor of Painting 1882–95 |
| George Vicat Cole | 1880 | |
| Henry Hugh Armstead |
| John Loughborough Pearson |
| William Burges | 1881 |
| Edwin Long |
| Walter William Ouless |
| Briton Rivière |
| Joseph Edgar Boehm | 1882 |
| Frank Holl | 1883 |
| Alfred Waterhouse | 1885 | Treasurer 1897–1901 |
| Luke Fildes | 1887 | |
| Marcus Stone |
| Hamo Thornycroft | 1888 |
| Hubert von Herkomer | 1890 | Professor of Painting 1899–1900 & 1906–1909 |
| Thomas Brock | 1891 | |
| Frank Dicksee | President 1924–1928 |
| Andrew Carrick Gow | Keeper 1911–1920; Librarian 1911–1920 |
| Alfred Gilbert | 1892 | Professor of Sculpture 1900–1904 |
| Val Prinsep | 1894 | Professor of Painting 1900–1903 |
| Edward Onslow Ford | 1895 | |
| William Blake Richmond | Professor of Painting 1895–1899 & 1909–1911 |
| John William Waterhouse | |
| Ernest Crofts | 1896 | Keeper 1898–1911 |
| Thomas Graham Jackson | Treasurer 1901–1912 |
| John Singer Sargent | 1897 | |
| George Frederic Watts |
| Edwin Austin Abbey | 1898 |
| George Aitchison | Professor of Architecture 1887–1905 |
| Benjamin Williams Leader | |
| George Frederick Bodley | 1902 |
| George Frampton |
| Aston Webb | 1903 | Treasurer 1912–1919; President 1919–24 |
| Robert Walker Macbeth | |
| David Murray | 1905 |
| George Clausen | 1908 | Professor of Painting 1903–1906 |
| William Lionel Wyllie | 1907 | |
| John Belcher | 1909 |
| Goscombe John |
| James Jebusa Shannon |
| Arthur Stockdale Cope | 1910 |
| Charles Napier Hemy |
| Frank Bramley | 1911 |
| Henry Herbert La Thangue | 1912 |
| Reginald Blomfield | 1914 | Professor of Architecture 1907–11 |
| Alfred East | 1913 | |
| G.A. Storey | 1914 | Professor of Perspective 1914–19 |
| Henry Scott Tuke | |
| John Arnesby Brown | 1915 |
| Charles Sims | Keeper 1920–26 |
| Ernest George | 1917 | |
| William Robert Colton | Professor of Sculpture 1907–1911 |
| Frank Brangwyn | 1919 | |
| Ernest Newton |
| William Orpen |
| Adrian Scott Stokes |
| David Young Cameron | 1920 |
| William Llewellyn | President 1928–1938 |
| Charles Haslewood Shannon | |
| Edwin Landseer Lutyens | President 1938–1944 |
| Robert Anning Bell | 1922 | |
| Giles Gilbert Scott |
| Terrick Williams | 1924 |
| Philip Connard | 1925 | Keeper 1945–1949 |
| John James Burnet | |
| Alfred Munnings | President 1944–1949 |
| Walter Westley Russell | 1926 | Keeper 1927–42 |
| Augustus John | 1928 | |
| William Reid Dick |
| Gerald Kelly | 1930 | Keeper 1943–1945; President 1949–1954 |
| Sydney Lee | Treasurer 1932–40 |
| Herbert Baker | 1932 | |
| George Spencer Watson |
| Wilfrid de Glehn |
| Henry Macbeth-Raeburn | 1933 | Associate RA: 1922 |
| William Russell Flint | |
| William Curtis Green |
| Frank Short | Treasurer 1919–32 |
| Lamorna Birch | 1934 | |
| Frank Cadogan Cowper |
| Walter Sickert |
| Francis Dodd | 1935 |
| Guy Dawber |
| Laura Knight | 1936 |
| Henry Rushbury | Keeper 1949–1964 |
| Harold Knight | 1937 | |
| Edwin Cooper | Treasurer 1940–42 |
| Frederick William Elwell | 1938 | |
| Walter Thomas Monnington | President 1966–76 |
| Charles Wheeler | 1940 | President 1956–66 |
| James Bateman | 1942 | |
| Meredith Frampton |
| Vincent Harris | Treasurer 1942–54 |
| Arthur Joseph Davis | |
| Thomas Cantrell Dugdale | 1943 |
| Algernon Newton |
| Albert Richardson | 1944 | Professor of Architecture 1946–61; President 1954–56 |
| Charles Cundall | |
| Edward Maufe | 1947 | Treasurer 1954–58 |
| Winston Churchill | 1948 | Honorary Academician Extraordinary |
| Henry Lamb | 1949 | |
| Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd |
| Stanley Spencer | 1950 |
| John Nash | 1951 |
| Arnold Mason |
| Steven Spurrier | 1952 |
| Frank Dobson | 1953 |
| Louis de Soissons | Treasurer 1958–1962 |
| Richard Eurich | |
| William Dring | 1955 |
| Hubert Worthington |
| Howard Robertson | 1958 |
| Peter Greenham | 1960 | Keeper 1964–1985 |
| Basil Spence | Professor of Architecture 1961–1967; Treasurer 1962–1964 |
| Herbert James Gunn | 1961 | Treasurer 1964 |
| Norman Hepple | |
| Rodney Joseph Burn | 1962 |
| L.S. Lowry |
| Donald McMorran | Treasurer 1965 |
| John Aldridge | 1963 | |
| Marshall Sisson | Treasurer 1965–70 |
| Raymond Erith | 1964 | |
| Andrew Freeth | 1965 | Uncle of Peter Freeth |
| Carel Weight | |
| Henry Carr | 1966 |
| William Roberts |
| Raymond Teague Cowern | 1968 |
| Charles Mahoney |
| Eric Schilsky |
| William Holford | Treasurer 1970–1975 |
| Roger de Grey | 1969 | Treasurer 1976–1984; President 1984–1993 |
| Frederick Gibberd | |
| Leonard Rosoman |
| Willi Soukop |
| Hugh Casson | 1970 | Treasurer 1975–1976; President 1976–1984 |
| Edward Ardizzone | |
| Colin Hayes |
| John Bratby | 1971 |
| Gertrude Hermes |
| Norman Adams | 1972 | Keeper 1986–1995; Professor of Painting 1986 & 1995–1999 |
| Ralph Brown | |
| Jean Cooke |
| Maxwell Fry | Professor of Architecture 1967–1975 |
| Frederick Gore | |
| Edward Wolfe |
| William MacTaggart | 1973 |
| Edward Middleditch | Keeper 1985–1986 |
| Fred Cuming | 1974 | |
| Bryan Kneale | Professor of Sculpture 1985–1989 |
| Kyffin Williams | |
| Olwyn Bowey | 1975 |
| Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown | Professor of Architecture 1975–88 |
| Ernő Goldfinger | |
| Elizabeth Blackadder | 1976 |
| Jennifer Dickson |
| Elisabeth Frink | 1977 |
| Anthony Green |
| Philip Powell | Treasurer 1985–1995 |
| Sandra Blow | 1978 | |
| Leonard Manasseh | 1979 |
| Eduardo Paolozzi |
| David Tindle |
| Peter Blake | 1981 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2002–2004 |
| William Bowyer | |
| Sonia Lawson | 1982 |
| Tom Phillips | 1984 |
| Trevor Dannatt | 1983 | Professor of Architecture 1988–1995 |
| Michael Rothenstein | |
| Richard Rogers | 1984 |
| Philip Dowson | 1985 | President 1993–1999 |
| Donald Hamilton Fraser | |
| Leslie Martin |
| Ove Arup | 1986 |
| Allen Jones |
| Michael Kenny | Treasurer 1995–1999 |
| Morris Kestelman | |
| Norman Ackroyd | 1988 |
| Eileen Agar |
| Craigie Aitchison |
| Phillip King | Professor of Sculpture 1989–1999; President 1999–2004 |
| Ann Christopher | 1989 | |
| Lawrence Gowing | Honorary Curator 1985–1991 |
| Berthold Lubetkin | |
| Michael Sandle |
| Anthony Whishaw |
| Theo Crosby | 1990 |
| Ivor Abrahams | 1991 | Professor of Sculpture 2007–2010 |
| Norman Ackroyd | Professor of Printmaking |
| Diana Armfield | |
| Gillian Ayres |
| John Bellany |
| Edward Cullinan |
| Kenneth Draper |
| Peter Freeth |
Elected ARA: 30 May 1990
Nephew of Andrew Freeth |
[2] |
| Norman Foster | |
|
| Paul Huxley | Treasurer 2000–2014 |
| David Hockney | |
| Ken Howard | Professor of Perspective 2004–2012 |
| John Hoyland | Professor of Painting 1999–2010 |
| Bill Jacklin | |
| Geoffrey Jellicoe |
| R. B. Kitaj |
| Paul Koralek |
| Denys Lasdun |
| Leonard McComb | Keeper 1995–98 |
| Dhruva Mistry | |
| Sidney Nolan |
| James Stirling |
| Joe Tilson |
| Colin St John Wilson |
| Terry Frost | 1992 |
| Gus Cummins |
| William Tucker |
| Michael Hopkins |
| Brendan Neiland | Keeper 1998–2004 |
| Richard MacCormac | 1993 | |
| Jennifer Durrant | 1994 |
| Mick Moon |
| Tony Cragg |
| Nicholas Grimshaw | President 2004–11 |
| Christopher Orr | 1995 | Treasurer 2014–2018 |
| John Maine | |
| Flavia Irwin | 1996 |
| Christopher Le Brun | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 – 2002; President 2011–2019 |
| Patrick Procktor | |
| Barbara Rae |
| Eva Jiřičná | 1997 |
| Albert Irvin | 1998 | Elected Senior RA: 10 December 1998 |
| Stephen Farthing | |
| Richard Deacon |
| David Mach | Professor of Sculpture 2000–2007 |
| Ian Ritchie | Professor of Architecture 2004–2012 |
| Anish Kapoor | 1999 | |
| Alison Wilding | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2018–Present |
| Maurice Cockrill | Keeper 2004–2011 |
| David Nash | |
| Will Alsop | 2000 |
| Gordon Benson |
| Lynn Chadwick | 2001 |
| Eileen Cooper | First female Keeper, 2011 – 2017 |
| Piers Gough | Professor of Architecture 2013–2017 |
| Gary Hume | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2004–2006 |
| Richard Long | |
| Fiona Rae | 2002 | Professor of Painting 2011–2015 |
| Bill Woodrow | Professor of Painting 2011–2015 |
| Peter Cook | 2003 | |
| Antony Gormley |
| Nigel Hall |
| Ian McKeever |
| Anthony Caro | 2004 |
| Humphrey Ocean | Professor of Perspective 2012–2020 |
| Frank Bowling | 2005 | |
| Zaha Hadid |
| Lisa Milroy |
| Stephen Chambers |
| Eric Parry | 2006 |
| Basil Beattie |
| Michael Craig-Martin |
| David Remfry | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2016–18 |
| Chris Wilkinson | Treasurer 2018–Present |
| Richard Wilson | Professor of Sculpture 2011–15 |
| David Chipperfield | 2007 | |
| Tracey Emin | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2011–13 |
| Tony Bevan | |
| John Carter |
| Jenny Saville |
| Gillian Wearing |
| Spencer de Grey | 2008 |
| Tacita Dean |
| Michael Landy | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2014–16 |
| Terry Setch | 2009 | |
| Hughie O'Donoghue |
| Alan Stanton |
| Cornelia Parker |
| Tess Jaray | 2010 |
| Mali Morris | Professor of Painting 2019–2020 |
| Stephen Cox | |
| Timothy Hyman | 2011 |
| Phyllida Barlow |
| Anne Desmet |
| Grayson Perry |
| Ron Arad | 2012 |
| Sean Scully |
| Jock McFadyen |
| Thomas Heatherwick | 2013 |
| Chantal Joffe | Professor of Painting 2018–2019 |
| Mike Nelson | Professor of Sculpture 2019–Present |
| Emma Stibbon | |
| Conrad Shawcross |
| Yinka Shonibare |
| Tim Shaw |
| Neil Jeffries |
| Bob and Roberta Smith |
| Wolfgang Tillmans |
| Louisa Hutton | 2014 |
| Cathie Pilkington | Professor of Sculpture 2015–2019; Keeper 2020-Present |
| Rebecca Warren | |
| Eva Rothschild |
| Rose Wylie |
| Rebecca Salter | Keeper 2017–2019; President 2019–Present |
| Brian Catling | 2015 | |
| Farshid Moussavi | Professor of Architecture 2017–Present |
| Peter Randall-Page | |
| Vanessa Jackson |
| Roger Zogolovitch | Honorary Surveyor |
| Paula Rego | 2016 | |
| Sonia Boyce |
| David Adjaye | 2017 |
| Fiona Banner | Professor of Perspective 2020–Present |
| Isaac Julien | |
| Gilbert & George | Left the RA in 2020 |
[3] |
| Jane and Louise Wilson | 2018 | |
|
| Lubaina Himid | Professor of Painting 2020–Present |
| Adam Caruso and Peter St John | |
| Níall McLaughlin | 2019 |
| John Akomfrah |
| Rana Begum |
| Amanda Levete | 2021 |
| Ryan Gander |
| Peter Barber |
| Michael Armitage |
| Hew Locke | 2022 |
| Katherine Jones |
| Assemble |
| Clare Woods |
| Shirazeh Houshiary |
| Brian Griffiths |
| Veronica Ryan |
| Barbara Walker |
| Roger Hiorns |
| Hurvin Anderson | 2023 |
[4] |
| Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson (6a architects) |
[5] |
| Nigel Coates |
[6] |
| Elsie Owusu |
[7] |
| Oona Grimes |
[8] |
| Goshka Macuga |
[9] |
| Claudette Johnson | 2024 |
[10] |
| Helen Sear |
[11] |
| Sikelela Owen |
[12] |
| Caragh Thuring |
[13] |
| Margarita Gluzberg |
2025 |
[14] |
| Liane Lang |
[15] |
