The New English Art Club is an independent exhibiting society, founded in 1886 as a reaction against the Royal Academy. Its founders included ex Academicians such as John Lavery, John Singer Sargent and Philip Wilson Steer, and constituted the modern wing of British art in the late nineteenth century. Later, it was from the NEAC that the Camden Town Group broke away. This fascinating and important collection includes bound and annotated catalogues, 1886-1971; the minutes of the General & Executive Committee, 1913-81; accounts, 1923-68; correspondence, 1925-68; a list of exhibitors, 1888-1917, and press cuttings, 1946-66. The material complements the twenty-eight NEAC presscutting albums, 1887-1914 housed in the Archive and acquired in 1973 (TGA 7310/1-28).
