Royal Academy

More striking than anything to be seen in 1877 at the Royal Academy was the small collection of pictures at the Grosvenor Gallery, organized and controlled by a noble amateur -- himself a painter also -- with the avowed intention of exhibiting the latest and most eccentric phases of English art.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

On his right is that squatty mass of freestone and smoke, Englishmen exultingly call the Royal Academy, but which Frenchmen affect contempt for, and uninitiated Americans mistake for a tomb.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

In my researches I found that the Royal Academy has been a narrow-minded clique from its very initiation.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

We have only the Royal Academy, which is remarkable merely for the badness of its cuisine, and the coiffure of its well-meaning President.

The Green Carnation Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Of these the twelve discourses delivered before the Royal Academy are the most valuable, and have been reprinted in various editions.

Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation 1893

That nearly all artists dislike and despise the Royal Academy is a matter of common knowledge.

Modern Painting 1892

His first contribution to the Royal Academy was a water-color sketch in 1790.

A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

Of the two, that of our Royal Academy is the more ambitious in design, combining singular grace and dignity in the Madonna with action playfully suggested in the infant Christ and little S. John.

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

Over the door of the Royal Academy is a bust of Michael

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

The Royal Academy is the highest authority of the Spanish language.

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