Royal British Colonial Society of Artists

In 1887 William Ayerst Ingram and Thomas Cooper Gotch became founder members of the Royal Anglo Australian Society of Artists, which was later to be renamed the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists. In 1910 the Society was granted a Royal Charter. Gotch became its second president in 1912 a position he held until 1928. British exhibitors included Robert Talbot Kelly, Percy Craft, Alfred Munnings, Frank Short, Malcolm Osborne, Frank Brangwyn, Freda Marston, Norman Wilkinson, Herbert Davis Richter, Alfred William Strutt and Albert Chevalier Tayler who also acted as Honorary Secretary.

As its title suggests, many artists from the then-British colonies of South Africa, Canada, India, New Zealand and Australia also exhibited. Percy Craft was particularly active in the organisation of exhibitions for the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, of which many of the Newlyn artists were members. The last exhibition appears to have been staged in 1937 at the galleries of the Royal Institute then located at 7½ Suffolk Street, Piccadilly, London.

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