Tag Archives: Royal Academy

Save £25 at Royal Academy of Arts exhibition with TfL offer

Posted on October 1, 2025 by insidecroydon

Transport for London and the Royal Academy are partnering for the first time to offer customers using public transport 2-for-1 entry into one of the blockbuster exhibitions of the year by internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall. Kerry James Marshall: … Continue reading →

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Artist Henry Wallis and affair that caused a Victorian scandal

Posted on June 2, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A prominent artist, who scandalised Victorian society when having an affair with a married woman, and later worked as an Egyptologist and early collector of ceramics for the V&A, has been long overlooked in Croydon, where he lived … Continue reading →

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Croydon painter Sant, a portrait artist by Royal Appointment

Posted on April 23, 2023 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One hundred and fifty years ago, Queen Victoria chose a Croydon-born artist to be her ‘Principal Painter in Ordinary to Her Majesty’, but as  DAVID MORGAN discovered, she never liked his work As Croydon celebrates being the London … Continue reading →

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