American Academy of the Fine Arts

The American Academy of the Fine Arts was an art institution founded in 1802 in New York City, to encourage appreciation and teaching of the classical style.[1] It exhibited copies of classical works and encouraged artists to emulate the classical in their work.[2] Richard Varick, the mayor of New York, and Gulian Verplanck, a New York politician, were some of the academy's original organizers.[3] Younger artists grew increasingly restive under its constraint, and in 1825 left to found the National Academy of Design.

  1. ^ "A History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art" Page 7, 1913
  2. ^ Collection Tour Glossary Archived 2016-09-02 at the Wayback Machine, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  3. ^ Bolger, Doreen. Ambrose Andrews and His Masterpiece, "The Children of Nathan Starr", American Art Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1990, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., p. 5.