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Auction houses [ Trade ]

… becoming a hub of connoisseurial debate. Places > Trade Keywords Art market commerce collecting catalogue Coffeehouse Exhibitions Royal Exchange Covent Garden Pall Mall Auction sales were imported from seventeenth-century Holland, but … most famous auction houses nestled comfortably in the networks of exclusive clubs, sought after entertainment venues and exhibitions rooms in Pall Mall and the West End. Charles Jenner in his Town Eclogues (1772) depicted the young lady of … sales continued to operate in winter, many fashionable art auctions coincided by the end of the century with the summer exhibitions of the Royal Academy and the fashionable season of London society. 10 10 . Pamela M. Fletcher and Anne …

William Blake [ Art and Literature ]

… and sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords poetry Art Annotations Conversation Letters Friendship Salons Exhibitions Patronage Marketplace William Blake (1757-1827) was born into a dissenting family at 28 Broad Street in Soho … to think about Blake and sociability. … poetry … Art … Annotations … Conversation … Letters … Friendship … Salons … Exhibitions … Patronage … Marketplace … William Blake …

Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]

… social interaction, which encouraged different types of sociability. With cultural entertainments such as concerts and exhibitions of paintings, it made polite pleasures a part of sociability. The activities it offered ranged from … social interaction, which encouraged different types of sociability. With cultural entertainments such as concerts and exhibitions of paintings, it made polite pleasures a part of sociability. The activities it offered ranged from …

Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]

… 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 … or for the purchase of a catalogue, was a bone of contention among organizers. See Brandon Taylor, Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public 1747-2001 (New Brunswick (NJ) : Rutgers UP, 1999), p. 11 sq. 9 . Advertisement in the …

Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]

… sphere, including spaces like coffeehouses, salons or assembly rooms in England and France, and activities like art exhibitions. These commercial venues would also encourage sociable interactions that promoted mixing and mingling in ‘the …

Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… introduced in different ways throughout the period. For one thing, the eighteenth century saw the introduction of art exhibitions as a means to connect art with an audience that was wider than before, and these exhibitions themselves constituted a new form of patronage. The Paris Salon opened to the public in 1737, and in 1768, …