I noticed that there was an exhibition showing at the Royal Academy of Constable, Gainsborough and Turner, three massive names in English art, and some of my favourite landscape artists. So I was always going to go along. Though now having been, I wish I had read the Guardian's review of it before going. There were a lot of engravings, and not many landscape paintings. The engravings were of the 3 masters' paintings, I just kind of wished that they had the paintings instead. It was cool to see engravings of places we have been here, like the peaks district and Wales. It was just a bit disappointing that there weren't more of the 3 main guys. I thought the Royal Academy would have had the sway to demand these paintings when they want to exhibit them, but perhaps they don't have the same power they used to.
It was interesting to visit the building though, as unknown to me there are about 6 royal academies in the same set of buildings, geology, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and they all share the same courtyard.
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