Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768) [ Practices / People ]
… most humbly represented by memorial unto the King that they are desirous of establishing a Society for promoting the Arts of Design, and earnestly soliciting his Majesty's patronage and assistance in carrying this their plan into … undertaking, doth hereby institute and establish the said Society, under the name and title of the Koyal Academy of Arts in London, graciously declaring himself the patron, protector, and supporter thereof; and commanding that it be … shall consist of forty members only, who shall be called Academicians of the Royal Academy; they shall all of them be artists by profession at the time of their admission that is to say, painters, sculptors, or architects, men of fair …
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