The RA's January exhibition brings together paintings, drawings and the artist’s illustrated letters (due to be published next week in six volumes and online), in which he sketched out his ideas and explained his work in progress. The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters runs from 23 January to 18 April
Photograph: Metropolitian Museum of Art/Royal Academy of Arts
The exhibition will include the artist's comparatively cheerful second-last letter to his brother Theo. His last letter was the suicide note found on his body when, only a few weeks later, he shot himself in the fields he was painting
Photograph: Van Gogh Museum/Royal Academy of Arts
The artist's portrait of his rosy-cheeked daughter, Clara Serena, is one of 15 Rubens paintings owned by the Liechtenstein family, on loan to London from their extensive private collection. The Liechtenstein Collection runs from 25 September until 12 December 2010
Photograph: Royal Academy of Arts
The princes of Liechtenstein have been buying art, antiques and fabulous furniture since the 14th century and – unlike most of the continent’s noble families – keeping it. They have sent a major exhibition to St Petersburg, and will send another to the Royal Academy from September 2010. The London loans will include these Rubens and several Van Dycks, as well as Dutch, Flemish and 19th-century German paintings, sculptures and furnishings
Photograph: Royal Academy of Arts
He is an American artist best-known for his flamboyant society portraits, and this exhibition, Sargent and the Sea, is the first time his seascapes will be seen in Britain. It runs from 10 July to 26 September 2010
Photograph: Corcoran Gallery of Art/Royal Academy of Arts
Although his parents were American, the artist was born in Florence and brought up on the continent: this painting records, from the heaving deck, the mountainous waves of a spectacular Atlantic storm that hit the ship that was bringing him back from his first visit to America
Photograph: Royal Academy of Arts
This painting will form part of an exhibition (the first in more than 40 years and the largest in London) of the “Glasgow Boys”, young artists at the end of the 19th century who were heavily influenced by the outdoor painting, working-class subjects and impressionist styles of their contemporaries in Europe. Pioneering Painters: Glasgow Boys 1880–1900 runs from 30 October 2010 until 23 January 2011
Photograph: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum /Royal Academy of Arts
Paintings by this group of artists were better known in Scotland and Europe than in English collections. Many are coming to this exhibition from private collections in Scotland and overseas, and have never been exhibited since the original owners bought them straight from the artists
Photograph: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum/Royal Academy of Arts
One of the leading figures of 18th-century British art, Sandby has long been considered the ‘father of English watercolour painting’. Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain runs from 13 March to 13 June 2010
Photograph: Royal Academy of Arts
The exhibition, which marks the bicentenary of the artist's death, will feature more than 80 of his works and celebrate his cultural and geographical range as an artist
Photograph: Nottingham City Museums and Galleries /Royal Academy of Arts
