C. S. Matheson
 
Matheson, C. S.
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3. 'A Shilling Well Laid Out’: The Royal Academy’s Early Public
C. S. Matheson
Description: Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
THE ADVENT OF ANNUAL ART EXHIBITIONS IN England during the second half of the eighteenth century helped stimulate certain fundamental shifts in the nature of contemporary artistic production; but their impact on the development of the viewing public proved at least equally profound. Exhibitions provided their spectators with ideological and aesthetic instruction, in part by generating a...
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C. S. Matheson
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2001 by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Courtauld Institute Gallery
Related print edition pages: pp.39-54
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.009
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18336
Chapter subject tags:Art, British--Exhibitions--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Art and society--Britain--History--18th centuryArt exhibition audiences--Great Britain--18th centurySomerset House (London, England)Art criticism--England--18th century