Art Academies and Art Academy Schemes in Britain and Ireland, 1600-1770

Before (and after) the establishment of the Royal Academy in London in
1768, there were numerous individuals and associations that proposed or
implemented plans to create academies for the arts in Britain and Ireland.
Examples can be traced to at least the early seventeenth century. To date,
there is no publication that pulls together a single list of academies
and/or academy schemes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain and
Ireland. In the chart below, I bring together the ...