Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
… As a social body the Academy shared characteristics of previously founded foreign academies and of the nascent British clubs, some of which, such as the Rose and Crown or the Society of Virtuosi of Saint Luke, at the turn of the century, were artists’ clubs. Membership, like that of clubs or of the French Académie, was strictly defined and sociability limited: the number of Academicians was set at 40, …
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