Royal Cambrian Academy of Art

The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art is a centre of excellence for art in Wales. Its primary gallery is placed in Conwy and it has over 100 individuals. During the nineteenth century there had been numerous tries to establish an academy in Wales comparable to those already in existence in England, Scotland and Ireland. The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art was eventually founded in 1881, through a collection of in particular English painters led via Henry Clarence Whaite, a lot of whom were now based totally within the Conwy Valley.

It is because political unrest had made the Grand Tour risky for travellers, the wilds of North Wales became a elegant alternative for English artists, specifically the vicinity round Betws-y-Coed which attracted the likes of David Cox. The coming of the railways later aided artists from Liverpool and Manchester in transporting their art substances to Wales. These artists arranged to meet a group of like-minded Welsh artists at Llandudno Junction, and from this assembly a set become fashioned called the Cambrian Academy of Art.