Abstract
"The Royal Academy of arts in 18th century, a royal academy ?", by Basile Baudez. The Royal Academy of arts, established in 1768, could have been just one of many art societies created in Eighteenth-Century London. But the closeness of one of the founder, the architect William Chambers, with king George III and the latter's known fondness for arts in general and specially architecture drove the artists to place themselves under the royal patronage and protection. This story has much to do with the beginnings of the Paris Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. However, unlike the other continental academies, the London Royal Academy kept its autonomy and its private status. The English political regime, the king's personal weakening in the end of the second part of his reign don't explain all. The fact that the Academy refused to deliver dogmatic statements or to control the arts in the Kingdom allowed the society to benefit from the king's generosity and protection without giving up its independance which was practically unique amongst the great European academies of the Eighteenth-Century.
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