Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
… 1769, thirty Academicians dined at St Alban’s Tavern with a few members of the aristocracy, invited as connoisseurs and patrons of the art. The following year the Academy held its annual dinner in its own rooms, the gallery in Pall Mall. … entertainment were provided and the arrangement of tables encouraged the social mixing of artists and their potential patrons. 6 At the end of the century the Academy’s banquet polarized public interest: it acquired a stronger political … exclusion meant control of who could have access to the artists or view the liberal arts. Besides, even though royal patronage of the Academy was supposed to unify a body of artists into a coherent whole, rivalries remained an obstacle to …
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