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Commissioned to mark HM The Queen's 50 year association with the RSA, taken at official hanging of the portrait

Commissioned to mark HM The Queen's 50 year association with the RSA

Commissioned to mark HM The Queen's 50 year association with the RSA

Painted by Anna Zinkeisen, RDI; 12,500 sold

Original painting was awarded a prize of five guineas and a silver medal in 1759. The artist was 15 years old and the silver medal was given in addition to the advertised monetary prize 'as a further reward for her extraordinary merit'. Mary Moser was a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768 and one of the first two women Academicians. 11,000 sold

First painting in a series entitled 'The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture', displayed in the Great Room. This painting 'exhibits mankind in a savage state, full of imperfection, inconvenience and misery': not least being the savage animals in the middle and far distance. Orpheus himself, who occupies the centre of the composition, is extolling to his auditors the values of human culture. The countenances of those on the right hand who are attending to the divine lessons show 'the effect of those benefits which accrue to Mankind from the True Philosophy and Religion'. 19,500 copies sold.

Correspondence between the Society and The Anglo German Foundation exploring funding possibilities. Includes 'Opening Doors, A Report of the European Seminar, Schools and Parents as Partners' held by the Home-School Contract of Partnership at the RSA on 5th November 1990 by Glenda Jones, Manager of the Project.