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| Arthur George Walker Grief 1915 marble (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Charles Sims Clio and the Children 1915 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Charles Sims often painted mythological scenes in everyday contexts, using friends and family members as models. This picture depicts Clio, Muse of History, reading to a group of children in a still Sussex landscape. It was completed before the death of the artist's eldest son in World War I. Subsequently, Sims stained Clio's scroll with red."
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| John Arnesby Brown The Raincloud ca. 1915 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Although Brown worked out of doors, his paintings were largely composed in the studio, as he believed that 'the artist must re-arrange, must eliminate and add and must design to suit his ideas.' He was more interested in composing an image that conjured up the atmospheric qualities of nature than a pictorial translation of what he had seen. Trees interested him merely as 'cliffy masses rather than individual organisms' and cattle 'as parts of a whole,' so that his profound knowledge of their anatomy is concealed rather than exposed."
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| Alfred Drury Lilith 1916 marble (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"According to Hebrew folklore, Lilith, the first wife of Adam, was banished from Eden for refusing to be subservient to her husband. She is portrayed in various mythologies as a vengeful temptress. In the late nineteenth century the subject of Lilith attracted European Symbolist artists and writers, as she was seen to encapsulate the dark romantic qualities of the femme fatale."
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| Charles Hartwell The Oracle 1917 marble (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Ernest Newton Design for a House, Jouy-en-Josas near Paris 1919 drawing, with added watercolor (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Francis Derwent Wood The Dancer 1919 bronze (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| William Strang Portrait of Campbell Dodgson 1919 engraving (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"William Strang presented this portrait of Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum from 1912 to 1932, as his RA Diploma Work. Elected as an Associate Engraver in 1906, Strang became a Royal Academician Engraver in 1921. According to Philip Athill Strang, he was 'infuriated' to be elected as an engraver rather than a painter."
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| William Robert Colton The Young Diana 1919 marble (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| D.Y. Cameron Interior of Durham Cathedral ca. 1920 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Cameron was initially best known as an etcher. His architectural subjects and his landscapes were at the forefront of the British etching revival between 1880 and 1930."
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| George Henry Brambles 1920 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Lavery The Van Dyck Room, Wilton 1920 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edwin Lutyens Design for Jaipur Column, New Delhi ca. 1920 drawing, with watercolor (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Julius Olsson Sunset: Cornish Coast ca. 1920 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Adrian Stokes Lago Maggiore ca. 1920 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
– quoted texts adapted from Royal Academy notes