Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
… 1808. Abstract The Royal Academy of Arts, founded in 1768, was an example of restricted professional and cultural sociability. The statutes limited the number of members and imposed rules of good behaviour to ensure that politeness … of the 1760s. The royal charter the Academy was granted and the statutes it set for itself inaugurated a new era for artistic sociability by giving it an institutional basis. As a social body the Academy shared characteristics of … and the General Assembly was given the right to expel any ‘obnoxious’ member ( Hutchison 245) . Students, selected on artistic ability (there were seventy-seven of them, mostly painters, in the first year of the institution), were also …
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