[2][3] Artists wishing to resign were required to give three months' notice and pay a fine of £100.
[4] The RBA currently has 85 elected members who participate in an annual exhibition currently held at the Mall Galleries in London.
The Society's previous gallery was a building designed by John Nash in Suffolk Street.
Queen Victoria granted the Society the Royal Charter in 1887.
It is one of the nine member societies that form the Federation of British Artists which administers the Mall Galleries, next to Trafalgar Square.