Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768) [ Practices / People ]
… eminent professors of painting, sculpture, and architecture, have most humbly represented by memorial unto the King that they are desirous of establishing a Society for promoting the Arts of Design, and earnestly soliciting his … utility hath been fully and clearly demonstrated, his Majesty, therefore, desirous of encouraging every useful undertaking, doth hereby institute and establish the said Society, under the name and title of the Koyal Academy of Arts in … to reform all abuses, to censure such as are deficient in their duty, and (with the consent of the general body, and the King's permission first obtained for that purpose), to suspend or entirely remove from their employments such as shall be …
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