Tag Archives: Grosvenor Gallery

the coxcombs move on

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Dave

The late Victorian period for the Royal Academy was really the end , succumbing after a long and chronic respiratory illness. Frith’s The Private View from 1881, showed that the Summer Exhibition could still take a hold on the public, … Continue reading →

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w. blake: the quack doctors of painting

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Dave

The Royal Academy. The real power of the Royal Academy lay in its early days, and the driving force behind its consolidation was not primarily intellectual or social at all. It related to the machinery of distribution and sale. High … Continue reading →