Talk:Thomas Francis Dicksee
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Removed categories: Royal Academician and Fellow of the Royal Society
editI have removed these categories. The Royal Academy has a comprehensive list on its website of people who have been RAs [1]. Dicksee does not appear, and the RA do not mention it (as they would do) in the online biography they do have of him. It should be noted that just because the wiki article says he "exhibited at the Royal Academy", this does not imply he was an elected Member of the RA.
It also seems a priori unlikely that Dicksee was a Fellow of the Royal Society, as the Royal Society is an organisation of scientists, not artists. I have therefore also removed this category, unless anyone can come up with good evidence that Dicksee really was an FRS. Crucially, he is also not included in this list of Fellows of the Royal Society from 1660 to 2007. It is possible that the category was originally added mistakenly on the basis that he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, a quite different body. Jheald (talk) 20:39, 24 January 2018 (UTC)