New English Art Club
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The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1885 as an alternate venue to the Royal Academy. Scores of young English artists returning from studying art in Paris mounted the first exhibition in April 1886. Among them were John Singer Sargent, Philip Wilson Steer, George Clausen and Stanhope Forbes.
The Impressionist style was well-represented at the NEAC, in comparison to the old-school academic art shown at the Royal Academy. For a time, the NEAC was seen as a stepping-stone to Royal Academy membership. Today the NEAC continues in a realistic, figurative style, while the Royal Academy has embraced abstract and conceptual art.
NEAC members include Frederick Cuming, Ken Howard and Charles Williams.
The NEAC is one of the member societies of the Federation of British Artists.
[edit] Honorary life members
- William Bowyer
- Michael Brockway
- Bob Brown
- Fred Dubery
- Bernard Dunstan
- Bernard Ecclestone
- Charlotte Halliday
- Margaret Thomas
