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The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London
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The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Smith, Charles Saumarez

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London: Modern Art Press, 2012. Hardcover. 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.
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Charles Saumarez Smith is former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery. He is currently Secretary of the Royal Academy. His previous publications include The Building of Castle Howard (1990), The Rise of Design: Design and the Domestic Interior in England (1993), The National Portrait Gallery (1997) and The National Gallery: A Short History (2009).