The Drawing Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society 1801 Adriaan de Lelie 1755 - 1820 Dutch Netherlands
Founded in 1777, the Amsterdam society called Felix Meritis (‘Happy through Merit’) grew into the cultural centre for the upper middle class. It had five depart-ments: commerce, natural science, music, literature and drawing. The drawing gallery could accommodate about sixty artists for life drawing classes in both daylight and lamplight. De Lelie, seated on the podium, looks out at us. In the sculpture gallery of the Felix Meritis Society, plaster casts of sculptures from Roman museums and the Musée Napoléon in Paris were exhibited against pale blue walls. De Lelie, a member of the society, portrayed himself from the back amidst the commis-sioners and directors of the scoiety’s
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