Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
… Academies Art Conflict Dining Exhibitions France The Royal Academy of Arts, was founded in 1768. It had been preceded by associations of painters whose main aim was to provide drawing sessions with a model, such as St Martin’s Lane Academy … already a characteristic of social life at artists’ clubs in the first half of the century and remained so in artists’ associations in the 1760s. After their first meeting, on January 2 nd 1769, thirty Academicians dined at St Alban’s …
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