The Society of Artists of Great Britain was founded in London in May 1761 by an association of artists in order to provide a venue for the public exhibition...
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Society of Artists may refer to: Society of Artists of Great Britain — an art society operating in Great Britain between 1761 and 1791 Society of Artists...
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rival Society of Artists of Great Britain, where the artists had more control. This continued until 1791, despite the founding of the Royal Academy of Arts...
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Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge (category Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art)
was exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in Spring Gardens. Today the painting is in the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut, having...
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United Kingdom (redirect from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island)
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the...
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George Lambert (English painter) (category Artists from Kent)
artists who proposed a royal academy of arts in London. He was a member of the Society of Artists of Great Britain, exhibited with them in 1761 and the...
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Judith Lewis (painter) (redirect from Judith Lewis (artist))
man as the Irish painter. She exhibited her work with the Society of Artists of Great Britain and it was praised by Horace Walpole, who wrote that she...
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First Exhibition (1760) (category Royal Society of Arts)
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Mary Moser (category Flower artists)
first Society of Arts medal at 14, and regularly exhibited flower pieces, and occasional history paintings, at the Society of Artists of Great Britain. Ten...
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Federation of British Artists "The Royal Society of Marine Artists" Archived 11 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Federation of British Artists. Retrieved...
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Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene (category Use British English from February 2023)
to exhibit five paintings at the Society of Artists of Great Britain. Before the painting was exhibited at the Society the following year it was reworked...
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History painting (redirect from Historical artist)
Society of Artists of Great Britain, the first body to organize regular exhibitions in London, awarded two generous prizes each year to paintings of subjects...
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Mary Grace (category 18th-century British painters)
Grace, of Thomas Bradbury, but engraved by Jonathan Spilsbury. Grace exhibited her own compositions at the Society of Artists of Great Britain every year...
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of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Byron exhibited at the Society of Artists...
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Pietro Fabris (category 18th-century Italian male artists)
were exhibited in 1768 in the London Free Society and in 1772 in the London Society of Artists of Great Britain. Fabris became acquainted with painter Antonio...
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The Great Society (also known as The Great!! Society!!) was a 1960s San Francisco rock band that existed from 1965 to 1966, and was closely associated...
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The Moravian Church of the British Province (formally The Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland) is part of the worldwide Moravian Church Unity...
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Francis Milner Newton (category 18th-century English male artists)
exhibited at the Society of Arts. Both groups held annual exhibitions over the next few years. In 1765 the Society of Artists of Great Britain obtained a charter...
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Joseph Samuel Webster (category 18th-century English male artists)
the Society of Artists of Great Britain, and in 1763 his work also appeared in the Free Society. In 1769 the Society of Artists paid him for some of his...
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SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from...
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Society of Women Artists (SWA) is a British art body dedicated to celebrating and promoting fine art created by women. It was founded as the Society of...
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Francis Cotes (category 18th-century English male artists)
painter Peter Toms. One of the most fashionable portrait painters of his day, Cotes helped found the Society of Artists of Great Britain and became its director...
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The Ivors Academy (redirect from Composers' Guild of Great Britain)
as its first president. The Songwriters' Guild of Great Britain, later known as The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors was founded...
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associate." Matthew Hargraves (2005). 'Candidates for Fame': The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760–1791. Yale University Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-300-11004-3...
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of the Society of Artists of Great Britain and the Free Society of Artists. Sir William Chambers, a prominent architect and head of the British government's...
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George Barret Sr. (category Irish emigrants to Kingdom of Great Britain)
gained recognition to become a leading artist of the period. He exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain and was able to gain patronage from...
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Barbadian artists Belarusian artists Belgian artists Bosnian artists Brazilian artists British artists Bulgarian artists Burmese artists Cambodian artists Cameroonian...
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Benjamin West (redirect from Benjamin West (artist))
West one of the primary leaders of an opposition group formed out of the existing Society of Artists of Great Britain; Joshua Reynolds was its first president...
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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III...
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style derived from classicism and the art of the High Renaissance. In the eighteenth century, British artists and connoisseurs used the term to describe...
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