Presidents (P.R.A.)
| President | Served |
|---|---|
| Sir Joshua Reynolds | 1768–1792 |
| Benjamin West | 1792–1805 |
| James Wyatt | 1805–1806 |
| Benjamin West | 1806–1820 |
| Sir Thomas Lawrence | 1820–1830 |
| Sir Martin Archer Shee | 1830–1850 |
| Sir Charles Lock Eastlake | 1850–1865 |
| Sir Francis Grant | 1866–1878 |
| Lord Leighton | 1878–1896 |
| Sir John Everett Millais | February–August 1896 |
| Sir Edward Poynter | 1896–1918 |
| Sir Aston Webb | 1919–1924 |
| Sir Frank Dicksee | 1924–1928 |
| Sir William Llewellyn | 1928–1938 |
| Sir Edwin Lutyens | 1938–1944 |
| Sir Alfred Munnings | 1944–1949 |
| Sir Gerald Kelly | 1949–1954 |
| Sir Albert Richardson | 1954–1956 |
| Sir Charles Wheeler | 1956–1966 |
| Sir Thomas Monnington | 1966–1976 |
| Sir Hugh Casson | 1976–1984 |
| Sir Roger de Grey | 1984–1993 |
| Sir Philip Dowson | 1993–1999 |
| Phillip King | 1999–2004 |
| Sir Nicholas Grimshaw | 2004–2011 |
| Christopher Le Brun | 2011–Present |
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“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)