Turned vertically, the whole page is taken up by the following notes:
Second Council, Jany. 20 1819.
Read the Minutes
Mr Nixon. request granted to draw
Mr Vaughan Letter.
Address. to the P. Regent sent to Ld Sidmouth.
Bishop of London answer
Mr Lysons ditto.
Louis Sailliard. Letter. 10£ by Mr Flaxman
Stuart, not Rolls. – not ++ past
Jukes – not Engleheart. Not ++
Watson – not Conquest. not
Boxall. Past Hearn not
Thurston. past Cartwright not
Lance + past not Sandifort past
Hilton... not Wilkinson past.
Mazey – not Pastorini. not. not
Wood. – past Holls + not
Fancourt Past [?Henings.] +
Cramption not Henings. [...] XV
Slous. – past. Marshall. not –
Mr [?Evans] and Mr [???Hodington] to add a [?Book] | or 2: at the door of the Library
After publishing Turner’s notes in his 1909 Turner
Inventory, Finberg made manuscript transcriptions from the relevant passages of Royal Academy Council minutes for 12 January 1819;
1 the following notes are closely based on Finberg’s, with some additional information interpolated. The sculptor John Flaxman chaired the meeting. A letter from the Rev. R. Nixon was read, requesting permission to draw in the Academy Schools for another year. Another, from Thomas Vaughan, returned thanks for a donation (see also folio 40 recto;
D13812). It was noted that an Address of Condolence, as voted for previously, had been forwarded to the Prince Regent (later George IV), via Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary (presumably in relation to the death of the Prince’s daughter Princess Charlotte Augusta in 1817). William Howley, the Bishop of London, wrote to accept the Academy’s Professorship of Ancient Literature. Lyson’s letter is not mentioned in detail. Louis Salliart (sic), an engraver and former Royal Academy student, had requested assistance, and Flaxman agreed to advance ten pounds.
There follows a list of students admitted as Probationers: William Boxall, John Wood, Edward Fancourt, J. Sandiford, B. Wilkinson, N.G. Slous, C. Rolls, G. Lance, Edward Malo, W. Harris (‘to bring a character’), W.J. Booth, J. Robson, Ambrose Poynter, W.J. Watson and J. Thurston. H.J. Wilson, F. Catherwood (Turner appears to write ‘Cartwright’), F. Mordaunt, G. Hargreaves, B. Fancourt, J. Worgan (Finberg’s apparent reading) and H. Ashton were rejected. There seem to be some discrepancies with Turner’s list, possibly owing to the latter’s handwriting and spelling. William Long was admitted to the Life Class, and William McCall to the Painting School. Meanwhile, more bookcases were proposed for the Academy’s library.
There are similar notes on folio 40 recto (
D13812), and others which relate to the Academy’s annual exhibition in the spring of 1819 towards the beginning of the sketchbook (see under folio 4 recto;
D13757). See the
Old London Bridge sketchbook for notes of other 1819 Academy business (Tate
D17843–D17844; Turner Bequest CCV 5a, 6).
Matthew Imms
September 2013
