The Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (RBC) was founded in 1887 as the Royal Anglo Australian Society of Artists and received its

royal charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, b ...

under its later name in 1907. Its members were artists from Britain (notably members of the Newlyn School), South Africa, Canada, India, New Zealand and Australia. It is known to have held an exhibition at the

Royal Institute Galleries The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is one of the societies in the Federation of British Artists, based in the Mall Galleries in London. History In 1831 the so ...

in London in 1937 and this is believed to have been its last.

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