Academy of English Professors of the Liberal Arts
founder of the Academy
Painter: Pompeo Batoni , around 1755 (1753–1756), oil on canvas, 97.8 × 73.7 cm.
The Academy of English Professors of the Liberal Arts was a British art school in Rome .
history
Some English artists and art lovers founded under the leadership of the art-loving Irish nobleman James Caulfeild (1728–1799) on May 11, 1752 the English Art Academy in Rome for British and Irish artists - based on the model of the French Académie de France à Rome that already existed there . The new art school had emerged from the earlier Academy of History Painter , founded in 1748 by 16 English painters in Rome . At that time, the Italian capital had developed into a center of international art education.
The only director of this art academy, like its predecessor, was the English history and portrait painter John Parker , who had been studying in Rome since 1745. Members of the academy included the architect William Chambers , the painters Gavin Hamilton , Thomas Patch and Richard Wilson, and the artist, collector, antique dealer and banker Thomas Jenkins . The academy also functioned as a copier of ancient Roman paintings for the English art market, with Parker working as an art agent for his financier Charlemont, who probably refinanced his expenses in Rome by selling the pictures.
However, on the instructions of Charlemont, the academy was given up again in April 1758 after only six years of operation due to differences of opinion among the artists working there. The causes were probably also the dispute between Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Parker and Charlemont , which began in 1756, as well as a previous “misconduct” by the homosexual painter Thomas Patch , which in 1755 led to his expulsion from Rome. Academy director John Parker also left Rome and was at the Accademia di San Luca as early as 1756 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernard Denvir (ed.): The eighteenth century. Art, design, and society 1689-1789 , Volume 2, Longman Paperback, 1983, ISBN 0582491436 and ISBN 9780582491434 , page 183
- ↑ He was the fourth Viscount Charlemont and from 1763, the first Earl of Charlemont , even jokingly Volunteer Earl called
- ^ Correspondence between Parker and Charlemont in: Fintan Cullen: Sources in Irish art , 2000, page 167 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Roman Department . Volumes 73–74, Verlag W. Regenberg, 1967, page 55 ( excerpt )
- ^ Report on the establishment of an academy in Rome . In: London Evening Post . 6 June 1752. Quoted in the London Evening Post, 6 June 1752. In: The art world in Britain 1660 to 1735. artworld , accessed September 27, 2019 (English).
- ^ Edgar Peters Bowron, Iveagh Bequest: Pompeo Batoni (1708-87) and his British patrons , Greater London Council, 1982, p. 36 ( excerpt )
- ↑ The question is whether there were really two successive institutions or just the name had changed: the only director of both institutions was the painter John Parker , the only donor of both institutions was the Earl of Charlemont .
- ↑ Wolfgang Becker (Ed.): Studies on the Art of the Nineteenth Century , Volume 10, Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung, Verlag Prestel, 1971, page 44 ( excerpt )
- ^ Arthur Michael Samuel: Piranesi , Verlag BT Batsford, 1910, page 76ff. ( online )
- ^ Richard James Campbell, Victor I. Carlson: Visions of antiquity. Neoclassical figure drawings , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993, ISBN 0295973099 or ISBN 9780295973098 , page 83 ( excerpt )
- ↑ Alastair Smart: The Life and Art of Allan Ramsay , Verlag Routledge & Paul, 1952, page 91 ( digitized version )