The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London
Hardcover
2012 · London
by Smith, Charles Saumarez
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. (Inventory #: 136409)