This institution first hosted a show controversially displaying the portrait of a child murderer made from handprints, Marcus Harvey’s Myra. In a painting targeting leaders of this institution, a young woman leans over the knee of an old man pointing his wand at prints on a wall; that work is Nathaniel Hone’s The Conjurer. A group portrait for this institution by Johann Zoffany incorporates two of its members as portraits on a wall. Thor Battling the Midgard Serpent was a diploma work submitted to this institution by Henry (*) Fuseli. In his Discourses on Art, one lecturer taught students of this institution about his “Grand Manner” and painted Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse. For 10 points, Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman were other founders of what institution, whose first president was Joshua Reynolds? ■END■
ANSWER: Royal Academy of Arts [or the RA; reject the “Academy” or the “British Academy”] (The first line refers to Sensation, a YBA exhibition. Nathaniel Hone’s Conjurer makes fun of Joshua Reynolds and Angelica Kauffman. The third line refers to Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman, as it would have been improper for them to be featured in person for a group portrait that also includes nude male models.)
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