On the wintry afternoon of Monday 28 November 1768, an architect and three artists were granted an audience with George III at St James's Palace; their mission, the foundation of a royal academy of arts in London. This book, written by Charles Saumarez Smith, the current Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy, is the first day-by-day account of the events that led up to that meeting and what happened immediately afterwards. In its telling, it reveals the strong personalities involved, the rivalries and ...
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On the wintry afternoon of Monday 28 November 1768, an architect and three artists were granted an audience with George III at St James's Palace; their mission, the foundation of a royal academy of arts in London. This book, written by Charles Saumarez Smith, the current Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy, is the first day-by-day account of the events that led up to that meeting and what happened immediately afterwards. In its telling, it reveals the strong personalities involved, the rivalries and intrigues that divided them, the competing ideas about the teaching and exhibition of art, and the problems of governance that forged the Royal Academy, and continue to reverberate within it today, some 250 years later.
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Add this copy of The Company of Artists: the Origins of the Royal to cart. $10.10, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Bloomsbury Continuum.
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Add this copy of The Company of Artists: the Origins of the Royal to cart. $12.48, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Bloomsbury Continuum.
Add this copy of The Company of Artists: the Origins of the Royal to cart. $31.47, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Modern Art Press.
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VG, Like New. Black & cream & illus. cloth, maps on flyleaves, 192 pp., 52 BW & color illus. In 1768, "an almighty row broke out within the Society of Artists....From this eruption emerged the Royal Academy of Arts." This book presents "an elegant and often amusing day-by-day account of these events and the two years that followed."
Add this copy of The Company of Artists: the Origins of the Royal to cart. $52.51, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Bloomsbury Continuum.
