London's first ever exhibition of living artists took place during 1760, and was organised and hosted by the Royal Society of Arts. There were 130 pictures by 69 painters in the exhibition, including artists such as Reynolds, Wilson, Cosway and Roubiliac.
The exhibition was considered a success. Hundreds of people visited, and although the Society had decided not to charge an entrance fee, the artists were left with a balance of £100 from the sale of catalogues.
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“The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or has visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education. “A boy,” says Plato, “is the most vicious of all beasts;” and in the same spirit the old English poet Gascoigne says, “A boy is better unborn than untaught.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)