non-academicians

Updated: May 10, 2025

From this incident arose the practice, still existing, of stationing sentries at the doors of the Academy during the exhibition. 'In the year 1862 there were 1142 works exhibited; of these 146 were the works of academicians, leaving 996 for the non-academicians. Sir Charles Eastlake's Examination before the Royal Academy Commission, 1863.

Dutton Cook - Art in England: Notes and Studies