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… was restricted to professional artists and they could not belong to ‘any other society of artists established in London’. 2 This also meant that connoisseurs were excluded, which was not the case in the French Académie where ‘amateurs … p. 165. 2 . The Instrument of Foundation [1768], in Sydney C. Hutchison, The History of the Royal Academy 1768-1986 (London, Robert Royce Ltd, 1986), p. 245. 3 . See William T. Whitley, Artists and their Friends in England 1700-1799, vol.1 [1928] (2nd ed., New York and London: Benjamin Blom, 1968), p. 238-239. 4 . Abstract of the Instrument of Institution and Laws of the Royal Academy …
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