Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
… a model, such as St Martin’s Lane Academy under the management of Hogarth in 1734, or to organize exhibitions as the Society of Artists of Great Britain did at Spring Gardens at the beginning of the 1760s. The royal charter the Academy … previously founded foreign academies and of the nascent British clubs, some of which, such as the Rose and Crown or the Society of Virtuosi of Saint Luke, at the turn of the century, were artists’ clubs. Membership, like that of clubs or of … their origin was defined: membership 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 …
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