Author: STRANGE (Robert):
Title: An Inquiry Into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts To Which Is Prefixed, a Letter to the Earl of Bute.
Description: London: Printed for R. and C. Dilly..., 1785. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 178 x 112 mms., pp. vi [vii Errata, viii blank], 141 [142 blank], bound in contemporary polished calf, neatly recornered and rebacked with original spine laid down, new red label, a very good and clean copy. The Scottish engraver Sir Robert Strange (1721–1792 In 1768, troubles in the Incorporated Society of Artists, of which Strange (1721 - 1792) was a member, led to the foundation of the Royal Academy. Strange opposed those breaking away, and he came to believe that the exclusion from the Academy of engravers was leveled against himself. His rival Francesco Bartolozzi was elected, ostensibly as a painter. With other engravers (William Sharp, John Hall, and William Woollett), Strange declined associate membership. In 1775 he published on his grievances in An Inquiry into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts. He moved to France in 1775 and spent the next five years there.

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