Annual awards ceremony at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London: view of the Great Room decorated with paintings by James Barry Architect/Designer Adam, Robert (1728-1792) Barry, James (1741-1806) Artist/Photographer Pugin, Augustus Charles (c. 1769-1832) | Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) Country UK: England City London Subject Date 1774 Image Date 1809 View Interior Style Georgian Medium Print Library Reference EW E.e.315/3 Orientation Landscape Colour Info Colour Credit RIBA Collections Subject Societies' buildings ; Halls ; Wall paintings ; Auditoria
SOURCE: R. Ackermann. The Microcosm of London (London, 1835), vol. III, pl. 71 NOTES: The Society, the first organisation ever set up in Britain to benefit art and science, was founded in 1754. It originally met at a coffee house in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, eventually moving to an especially designed house by Robert Adam off the Strand in 1774. The Great Room paintings were begun by James Barry in 1777 and completed in 1801.
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