BA COLLECTING COURSE

Why the need for an academy? The curse

of the “Dark Masters “ (Hogarth)

Wright of Derby: Academy by Lamplight Hogarth: Time Smoking a Picture, 1761

Precursors: The Academies of Kneller, Thornhill & St Luke

Gawen Hamilton: A Conversation of

Virtuosi at the King’s Arms Thornhill: Self-Portrait-detail from
the Greenwich Mural
 Hogarth and the St Martin’s Lane Academy

Old Slaughter’s Coffee House,

frequented by Hogarth’s artist friends near the
Hogarth: Self Portrait with Trump St Martin’s Lane academy
 Canaletto: The Long Walk, Vauxhall

Hayman: Jonathan Tyers & Family

Hayman: Supper Box Painting
The Court
Room,
Foundling
Hospital

Hogarth-
The Foundlings Hogarth: Captain Coram
The Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufactures 1754

Barry: Distribution of Premiums The Council Chamber of the RSA

at the Society of Arts
 The Society of Artists of Great Britain

Frontispiece of the Society of Artists’ Exhibition, Hogarth’s satirical tailpiece of

1761: Britannia watering the living trees of The Monkey Connoisseur,
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture watering dead foreign trees
  Private View of the Royal
Academy
 Rowlandson: The Starecase
of the Royal Academy
 The Royal Academy: Training

Zoffany: Life Class of the Royal Academy Burney: The Antique School
at Somerset House
 The Teaching of Reynolds: Theory

Reynolds Theory (for the

Reynolds: Self-Portrait with ceiling of the RA)
bust of Michelangelo
The Influence of the Academy:
The Triumph of History Painting

West: Kleombratus Ordered into West: The Death of Wolfe

Banishment