ESSE Dictionary:
akademski slikar - academy-trained painter

Speakers also include Pat Schleger, wife of the pioneering Modernist graphic designer Hans Schleger, book and album cover illustrator and multi-media artist Russell Mills and the Yorkshire-based, Royal Academy-trained painter Jake Attree.
http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/icons_of_the_desig...

Beryl Chapple, born in 1940, was a highly accomplished Royal Academy trained painte r, based in Cornwall, who gained world-wide recognition through her life-sized dog portraits, TV appearances and the publication of her book Dogs Dogs Dogs by Thames & Hudson in London and New York.
http://www.teddiesoftrenode.co.uk/chapple bears.htm

The depiction was based on a study led by the ethnologist Janez Bogataj, and the card was drawn by the academy-trained painter and illustrator Matjaž Schmidt.
http://pets.cnradiogroup.co.uk/artists.php?title=Tivoli_Pond

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Moj predlog je "academy-trained painter", a citat sa "Royal Academy-trained painter" je naveden samo kao primer (referenca) - naravno da to "Royal" nije deo mog predloga za konkretno pitanje.

Što se tiče BA i sl, ne znam da li bi vaš kontekst to opravdao. To „akademski slikar“ se sreće i za slikare iz XIX veka, a i danas, mada više i ne postoji Akademija (bar u Srbiji), već Fakultet likovnih umetnosti. Po meni, „akademski slikar“ nije strogo formalna kvalifikacija, tj. nekakvo zakonom propisano zvanje (ne znam da li neko uopšte i ima baš takvu diplomu), već se odnosi na sve visokoškolske likovne ustanove (tj. slikare koji su to završili), kakvog god da su formalnog naziva i bilo gde da se nalaze, a i vremenski je univerzalno.