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This document provides background on early art schools in England. It discusses how King Charles I was the first monarch to value art for its own sake, not just for royal splendor. It describes his establishment of the Musaeum Minervæ academy in London in the 1630s, which was intended to provide both general and fine art education to nobles and gentlemen, combining the two where universities of the time did not. The academy had regents and professors and was granted lands and assets by royal charter, with S

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