academician

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He began as a Royal Academician, became an ardent revolutionary, barely escaped execution after the fall of Robespierre, went on to be Napoleon’s chief propagandist, and ended life a political exile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

The 2023 exhibition is being co-ordinated by Royal Academician David Remfry, and has the theme "Only Connect".

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2023

The first Royal Academician, Joshua Reynolds, lined his walls with Rembrandts and Poussins, in the belief that some of their genius might rub off.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2018

Among other things, Academician Doroshov discovered a way to speed up the sturgeon's maturity cycle, from 15 to 20 years to four to six years.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a fact it is not in the private studios of great artists that the Royal Academician of the future, unlike the intending exhibitor in the Parisian salon, is to-day generally trained.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)