Excerpt from The Royal Academy and Its Members, 1768-1830 A considerable portion of the matter contained in this volume has appeared in the pages of the Art jou

Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848 offers a range of case studies which consider individual artists' personal,

Living with the Royal Academy directs attention to the textures of artists' relationships with the Royal Academy in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-centur