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 …
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