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Auction houses [ Trade ]

… 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 rapidly became a feature of the British market, … of wharfs and warehouses to the artistic clusters of Soho and Covent Garden and later on flourished in the West End and Pall Mall, completing their transition from commercial venues to fashionable haunts.    1 . Mascha Hansen, …

Saint James's [ Cities ]

… developments appeared in St James’s’. 1  St James’s was the site where the ‘seasonal elite’ concentrated in a very small area. The need to house the Lords’ families and retinue, and to support their domestic and entertainment consumption … 1756, p. 396. St James’s Street As one of the main streets of St James’s, St James’s Street runs from Piccadilly down to Pall Mall. The building of smaller houses and the commercial expansion of St James’s street favoured the development of … , a French Bread and Biscuit Baker, and a sword cutler (Chancellor 51). At the South end of St James’s Street, Pall Mall was also one of the first important shopping streets of the area, with a profusion of new luxury shops. St …

Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]

… of ‘Lord’s’). Originally called the White Conduit Club (because the players, who gathered at the Star and Garter Inn on Pall Mall, played on the White Conduit Fields in Islington), it moved to Lord’s first ground (on the site of the modern Dorset … The Boydell Press, 2018). Lewis, Tony, Double century: the Story of MCC and Cricket (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987). Mallinckrodt, Rebekka von (ed.), A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment (1650‒1800) , vol. 4 of …

Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]

… and patrons of the art. The following year the Academy held its annual dinner in its own rooms, the gallery in Pall Mall. Thus was initiated the tradition of the banquet on academic premises. From the start, it was an opportunity to open … to try to exclude the lower classes, a precedent which was taken up in academic practice. 8  For its first exhibition in Pall Mall in April 1769, the Royal Academy of Arts charged one shilling for admission to avoid the room being filled with …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… of high culture could be sampled. The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in 1768 and initially offered exhibitions in Pall Mall (its move to its current home in Burlington House on Piccadilly took place in 1868). The Pantheon on Oxford Street …