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Abstract The Royal Academy of Arts of England is, with regard to the Arts of Design, the first, and consequently the most subordinate, step in the career of national refinement, but it is the proper link which unites the progress of the arts with the greatness of the nation. (Prince Hoare, An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design, in England [London, 1806], 135.) Throughout the 1760s, London’s artistic community was in a state of permanent strife. The first exhibition of contemporary art in England, held at the rooms of the Society of Arts from 21 April to 8 May 1760, had been a success, selling 6,582 catalogues and receiving an estimated 1,000 daily visitors. Subsequently, however, the artists and their patron society fell out over the management of exhibitions, especially over admission fees which were directly relevant to the envisaged target audience. In 1761, a group of (mostly leading) artists split off and exhibited in a room in Spring Gardens, Charing Cross.
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