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5. ‘The Business of Criticism’: The Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London
Mark Hallett
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
ON TUESDAY, 27 APRIL 1784, the Public Advertiser joined a host of other London newspapers in announcing that ‘the EXHIBITION’ – by which it meant the Royal Academy exhibition –...
Author
Mark Hallett
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.65-75
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.011
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18338
Chapter subject tags:Art, British--Exhibitions--18th centuryArt criticism--England--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Somerset House (London, England)British newspapers--18th centuryPainting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th century

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5. ‘The Business of Criticism’: The Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London