Council minutes, vol. 1
Volume of minutes of the Council, including the following selected entries: a list of regulations relating to the Schools and Plaister Academy, 27 December 1768; the decision to admit engravers as Associates, 19 January 1769; the form of the diploma of appointment of Academicians, 20 May - 10 July 1769; the creation of a class of Associate members, 27 November and 5 December 1769; resolutions relating to the election of Associates, 7 March 1770; entries relating to the proposal of the Society of Dilettanti to create travelling scholarships in Italy or Greece for two students recommended by the Royal Academy, 21 March 1774; the resolution, following a motion of
Jeremiah Meyer, to reserve £100 of the charity fund annually for Academicians in financial distress, 8 April 1775; a copy of a letter from John Robinson, H M Treasury, to the Treasurer,
Sir William Chambers, detailing general conditions relating to the Royal Academy’s occupation of the new Somerset House building, 11 April 1780; copies of correspondence concerning the effect on the Royal Academy exhibition of the proposal to hold a “mart or court-fair” for the sale of works of art at the Pantheon, London, 24 January - 4 February 1782; a resolution by the Council to return paintings submitted for exhibition by
Thomas Gainsborough following a dispute with the Hanging Committee, 10 April 1784; and the loan by the Dilettanti Society of two fragments from the Parthenon frieze, 1784.