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On May 1, 1780, England's Royal Academy of Arts opened its twelfth annual exhibition, the first to be held in the magnificent rooms of William Chambers's newly built Somerset House. For the next fifty-seven years, the Great Room of Somerset House effectively defined the center of the London art world--the place where viewers had to see and be seen, and where artists fiercely vied for the attention of potential buyers. Such great exhibition performers as Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, and David Wilkie sharpened their skills during these stimulating decades. In this extensively illustrated book, seventeen renowned experts revisit and assess the Somerset House years, a period of great achievement and central importance in the history of British art. The book's contributors view the Somerset House phenomenon from a broad range of perspectives. They deal with the physical nature of the exhibitions, the audience, the role of the press, the Royal Academy's place within the larger world of urban entertainments, and how the conditions of display shaped and even transformed patterns of art production. In addition, they explore such topics as the tactics of

Author

David H Solkin; John Murdoch; Martin Myrone; Marcia Pointon; Michael Rosenthal; Courtauld Institute Gallery (London)

Publisher

Paul Mellon Center BA; Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Courtauld Institute Gallery by Yale University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300090918

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Updated

2026-03-24