Author:
GRANT, F.
Title: The Royal Academy.
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889.
Notes:
Riveting history of the British Royal Academy's foundation.
Features committee formation, the selection of the first pictures (and the panel
that made the selections)
for exhibition, the Academy's opening exhibition and
letters from contributors such as Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin
West and Sir F Grant.
The Royal Academy was formed to rival the Society of Artists
after an unseemly leadership dispute between
two leading architects, Sir William
Chambers and James Paine. Paine won, but Chambers vowed revenge
and used his strong connections
with King George III to create a new artistic body, the Royal Academy, in 1768.
It was formally launched
the following year. Its forty founder members included a father/daughter combination
(George Michael Moser and Mary Moser) and two sets of brothers
(George Dance the Younger and Nathaniel Dance-Holland, and Paul and Thomas Sandby).
Sir Joshua Reynolds was its first president, and Benjamin West its second.
Artists who trained at the Royal Academy include: William Blake,
Thomas Lawrence and J. M. W. Turner. The first Academy was housed in Pall Mall
(1768-1771) but moved to Somerset House (1771-1837) until the British government
took over the rooms for office space. It shared premises with the National Gallery in
Trafalgar Square until it moved to Burlington House in 1868.
Foundation of the British Royal Academy!
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