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Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]

… Résumé The Royal Academy of Arts, founded in 1768, was an example of restricted professional and cultural sociability. The statutes … fee, could share in the experience of visual sociability. At the end of the century, because of its inner conflicts, the Academy was criticized for its anti-sociability. Places > Institutions Mots-clés Artistic sociability Anti-sociability Visual sociability Dining Exhibition Somerset House The Royal Academy of Arts, was founded in 1768. It had been preceded by associations of painters whose main aim was to provide …

Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… the pure semantics of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Academy England Arcadia Association Italy France Social network Intellectual circle Meeting Rome Salon The Early Modern … one of the central attractions of intellectual sociability. Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel (1690) defined the academy as an ‘assembly of the educated classes, where science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their … societies. In the first years of the eighteenth century, however, the term reappeared, morphing to include the arts (the Academy of Painting, founded in 1711, is one example) 1 : British literary and artistic associations, though labelled …

Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… that is one of the key aspects of its legacy. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Academy England Meeting Association Satire Social network Intellectual circle Club Friendship Collaboration Alexander … One of these was serious, the other mock-serious. Jonathan Swift was honestly advocating for the establishment of an academy of letters similar to the Académie Française , a view he expressed in his pamphlet ‘A Proposal for Correcting, … the same year by John Oldmixon and Arthur Maynwaring in ‘Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley’ and ‘The British Academy’. Thus, Swift felt that an association of eminent men of letters could be beneficial to the state of language, …

William Blake [ Art and Literature ]

… and lived in a thriving metropolis. He went to a drawing school, was apprenticed to an engraver and studied at the Royal Academy. Blake had a close-knit family, many friends, patrons and employers. He was an eclectic reader and sympathized … of Ancient Mythology (1774-76). After completing his seven-year apprenticeship in 1779, he enrolled at the Royal Academy to become a painter. He practised in the plaster cast collections and used the library, but never completed his studies. Yet, each stage of his training offered opportunities. Blake continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy and must have realized that this didn’t further the sales of his paintings. He forged friendships that would help …

Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]

… immediately attracted praise (and premiums from the Society of Artists) for his work. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768 he joined their school, and he was elected an associate in 1783 and a Royal Academician in … 1813. After his recovery he made a further trip to Europe during the Peace of Amiens, with several other members of the Academy. While he ceased painting he maintained a wide range of activity, also becoming a member of the Society of Antiquaries, and although he never held a major office in the Royal Academy he served widely on a range of committees. If his own career remained rather stunted, it is clear that his …

Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]

… on their continental socio-political networks. A typical starting point for attaining the skills was to attend an academy. Initially founded by seventeenth-century French educators to deter their nobility from attending Italian … with strong ties to courtly life, such as Turin’s Accademia Reale and the Duke of Lorraine’s Nancy and Lunéville academy. 1 Through these institutions and the wider range of masters who gravitated to the area, Grand Tourists would … XVI–XIX), ed. M. Bellabarba and J. P. Niederkorn (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2010), pp. 140-41, 146-48. Beyond the academy walls, Grand Tourists tried out their social graces by participating in continuous rounds of sociability, during …