… the Academy was criticized for its anti-sociability. Places > Institutions Keywords Academies Art Conflict Dining Exhibitions France The Royal Academy of Arts, was founded in 1768. It had been preceded by associations of painters whose … drawing sessions with a model, such as St Martin’s Lane Academy under the management of Hogarth in 1734, or to organize exhibitions as the Society of Artists of Great Britain did at Spring Gardens at the beginning of the 1760s. The royal … Academy, for 1796 (London: H.D. Symonds, 1796); Peter Pindar, Lyric Odes for the Year 1783 (London: G. Kearsley, 1783). Exhibitions had been a means for artists to seek wider recognition since the middle of the century. The Foundling …