The sculptures in the courtyard are entitled The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth But Not the Mineral Rights. Witty.
Went in to see the John Madejski Fine Rooms, which are free. The exhibits there are At Home: Portraits of Artists from the Royal Academy Collection, which is essentially Royal Academy artists painting fellow RA artists, and The Body Politic: Anatomical Drawings by Benjamin Robert Haydon, which has a sculpture showing musculature, cast from a dead prisoner's dissected body. Haydon was "the most controversial artist of his day" and "committed suicide on 22nd June 1846 in front of an unfinished canvas".
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