William Roscoe: An Inaugural Lecture On Election to the Andrew Geddes And John Rankin Chair of ...
William Roscoe: An Inaugural Lecture On Election to the Andrew Geddes And John Rankin Chair of ...
Muir, Ramsay, 1872-1941
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Of these I can only give the barest catalogue. In 1784 he was one of the founders of the Society for promoting the Arts of Painting and Design, which was a "2 licvival of the earlier society he had helped to jound ten years before, and the precursor of the Jverpool Academy* This body, with the exception &f the Royal Academy^ was the first English >rganisation formed for these purposes, and its Exhibitions not only did niiich to encourage local rork^ but brought to Liverpool paintings by leynold...s^ Gainsborough, and others. Roscoe was luccessively Vice-President and President of this ly. He himself contributed drawings to its exhibitions^ etched the card of admission with lis own hand, and read several papers before its lembers. He was one of the founders, and for 'a number of years the President, of the Literary and Philosophical Society, which may, indeed, be said ■o have sprung from those meetings for informal discussion of which he was the soul. The Literary ^and Philosophical Society still flourishes ; but I lU not offend any of its members who may be iere if I say that though the city has quintupled in >pulation in the meantime, the proceedings of the :i€ty have never since been of more interest and 'value than they were in Roscoe's time.
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