London . arrying freshacquisitions of thought to his study, instead of withdrawing his attention from it,as is too often the case under such circumstances. As President his first act wasin accordance with all that we have described, and stamped a glory on the Aca-demy that will for ever make its memory dear to the lovers of art. He voluntarilyundertook the duty of delivering a series of discourses for the instruction of stu-dents, and commenced with the opening of the Academy. January 2,1769, and con-tinued them from time to time till the world was in possession of the whole of thosewritings w
London . arrying freshacquisitions of thought to his study, instead of withdrawing his attention from it,as is too often the case under such circumstances. As President his first act wasin accordance with all that we have described, and stamped a glory on the Aca-demy that will for ever make its memory dear to the lovers of art. He voluntarilyundertook the duty of delivering a series of discourses for the instruction of stu-dents, and commenced with the opening of the Academy. January 2,1769, and con-tinued them from time to time till the world was in possession of the whole of thosewritings which now form the students best text-book for the principles of hisart, and where not the painter only, but the poet and the musician, may find themost valuable instruction. The members of the Academy were well calculated to support the reputationwhich was at once obtained by the favourable circumstances of its the excellent picture, by Zoffany, of the hall of the Academy during one of the. n^n [Zoflanys Picture of the Uoyal AcaiU-micialis, 1773.] 216 LONDON. days devoted to drawing from the living model, we have the portraits of theoriginal members; and it is surprising, on looking over their names as given inthe Key, to see the amount of talent here congregated together. No wonder theIncorporated Artists soon sunk into oblivion, for they must have been deprived ofalmost every man of any eminence among them. Goldsmiths couplet on Rey-nolds, and the empty pretenders to knowledge who used to buzz about him, When they talkd of their Raphaels, Corrcggios, and stuff,He shifted liis trumpet, and only took snuft, points out the President in the centre. Next to him, with his hand raised to hischin, is Dr. William Hunter, brother to John Hunter, who was appointed Professorof Anatomy. On the other side of Reynolds, the star on the breast marks SirWilliam Chambers, the author of a most valualjle Treatise on Architecture,the architect of Somerset House, and the admirer of
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