A Road Less Travelled The Royal Society of British Artists

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The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) are set to bring in excess of 100 paintings by over 20 artists to exhibit in North Staffordshire for the first time in the organisations history.

Annually the RBA exhibits in the Mall Gallery, a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace, with the event being a firm favourite in the London Arts Calendar. But now, the RBA is set to travel North, for the first time ever, bringing with them some of the UK's most prestigious artists to exhibit at Trent Art Gallery in Newcastle under Lyme.

The RBA was established in 1823 and in the years that followed, the Society attracted many painters and sculptors of distinction including James McNeill Whistler, Sir Frank Brangwyn, Walter Sickert, LS Lowry, Edward Seago, Henry Moore and , John Duncan Fergusson. Artists at this time were the equivalent of the celebrity stars of today, feted by the aristocracy and royalty.