Royal Academy Founded in London
1768
George III chartered the Royal Academy of Arts with Joshua Reynolds as its first president. In his fifteen Discourses, Reynolds gave British painting a philosophy; Turner would later enroll at fourteen. London at last had an institution to tell artists what great painting was - and to ignore when necessary.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.