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… were forged during the annual banquet. The exhibition held at Somerset House from 1780 was the means to create a public, who, with the exception of the lower classes, excluded by an entrance fee, could share in the experience of … than by the egalitarian principle that prevailed in some clubs or in Hogarth’s Academy. 5 1 . See Daniel Roche, Les Républicains des Lettres (Paris, Fayard, 1988), p. 165. 2 . The Instrument of Foundation [1768], in Sydney C. Hutchison, … the social mixing of artists and their potential patrons. 6 At the end of the century the Academy’s banquet polarized public interest: it acquired a stronger political significance as a show of support for royalty while becoming a frequent …
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