Identifier: anecdotesofpaint00edwa (find matches)
Title: Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England
Subjects: Painters Artists
Publisher: London : Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Faulder, T. Payne, and J. White
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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his was not of long duration, for it com-menced in 172 4, and he died in 17^4; which reduced the artiftsagain to feek fome new feminary; for the public of that daywas fo little acquainted with the ufe of fuch fchools, that theywere even fufpecled of being held for immoral purpofes. After the death of Sir James, fome attempts were made tocontinue the meetings of the members; but of their conduct orfuccefs, no authentic accounts can now be procured. But the artifts were not long in this unfettled ftate, for a few ofthem (chiefly foreigners) finding themfelves without the neceflary * Mr. Yandergutch, the engraver, who died in 1778, at the advanced age of 80,ftudied in this academy, and frequently placed the model. Mr. Walpole tells us, that Sir James had before propofed to Lord Halifax,to obtain the foundation of a Royal Academy at the upper end of the Mews,with apartments for the Profeffors, which, by an eftimate he had made, wouldhave coft but£.3,13p. Vide 4th vol. oft. example r.jog.
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T-£ham&ars fc INTRODUCTION. xxi example of a living model, formed a fmall fociety, and eftabliiliedtheir regular meetings of ftudy in a covenient apartment inGreyhound Court, Arundel-ftreet.* The principal conductor ofthis feminary was Mr. G. Michael Moier. f Here they were vifited by fome of their contemporaryartifts, ^ who were fo well pleafed with the propriety of theircondu6l, and fo thoroughly convinced of the utility of the in-ftitution, that a general union took place ; and the membersthereby becoming numerous, they required and fought for a moreconvenient iituation and accommodation for their fchool. I low long they remained in Greyhound Court cannot now beknown; but at length they removed to a very convenient fituation.for their purpofe, in Peters Court, St. Martins Lane ; and itcan be afcertained that they were fettled there before the year1739. In this fituation, the ftudy of the human figure was carried on.till the year 1767, when they removed to Pall Mall, for better

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