Excerpt from The Royal Academy and Its Members, 1768-1830 A considerable portion of the matter contained in this volume has appeared in the pages of the Art journal, the proprietors of which magazine have kindly given their sanction for its use. The approval which the articles in their original form met with from members of the Academy and others, encouraged me to think that, with certain alterations and additions, they might meet with acceptance from the public as an authentic history of the Royal Academy and its members for the first sixty years of the existence of the Institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.