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The Art Museum in Modern Times
The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership, making him uniquely...
The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in
On the wintry afternoon of Monday 28 November 1768, an architect and three artists were granted an audience with George III at St James's Palace; their mission, the foundation of...
The Spy in the Bookshop: Letters Between Heywood Hill and John
Whilst compiling and editing "The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street", described as 'a little gem' by the "Sunday Times", John Saumarez Smith discovered that one side of that 'elegant and...