The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-12 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.

On Wednesday, the 10th instant, being the seventy-
seventh anniversary of the foundation of the Royal
Academy of Arts, a general assembly of the Acade-
micians was held in their apartments in Trafalgar-
square, when the following distribution of premiums
took place, viz.:—
To Mr. James Clark Hook, for the best Historical
Painting, the Gold Medal, and the Discourses of the
Presidents Reynolds and West.
To Mr. Alfred Brown, for the best Composition in
Sculpture, the Gold Medal, and the Discourses of the
Presidents Reynolds and West.
To Mr. Arthur Johnson, for the best Architectural
Design, the Gold Medal, and the Discourses of the Pre-
sidents Reynolds stud West.
To Mr. Thomas Clark, for the best Copy made in
the Painting School, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures
of the Professors Fuseli, Phillips, and Flaxman.
To Mr. William Gale, for the best Drawing from the
Life, the Silver]Medal, and the Lectures of the Professors
Fuseli, Phillips, and Flaxman.— (The books were not
given, he having received them in another class on a
former occasion.)
To Mr. Gustavus Ellenthorpe Sintzenich, for the
next best Drawing from the Life, the Silver Medal.
To Mr. Thomas Clark, for the next best Drawing
from the Life, the Silver Medal.
To Mr. Alfred Brown, for the best Model from the
Life, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of Professors
Fuseli, Phillips, and Flaxrnan.
To Mr. John Wilton Walton, for the best Drawings
of the Strand Front of Somerset House, the Silver Me-
dal, and the Lectures of the Professors Fusel', Phillips,
and Flaxman.
To Mr. Silvester Charles Capes, for the next best
Drawings of the Strand Front of Somerset House, the
Silver Medal.
To Mr. John Alfred Vinter, for the best Drawings
from the Antique, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures
of the Professors Fuseli and Phillips.
To Mr. George Bernard O'Neil,. for the next best
Drawings from the Antique, the Silver Medal.
To Mr. William Henderson, for the next hest Draw-
ings from the Antique, the Silver Medal.
To Mr. George IVlossman, for the best Model from
the Antique, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the
Professors Fuseli and Flaxman.
To Mr. Charles Samuel Kelsoy, for the next best
Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal.
To Mr. Leonard Wyon, for a Medal Die of the Head
of the Apollo Belvedere, the Silver Medal.
Afterwards an address from the President to the Stu-
dents was read by the Keeper.
The general assembly then proceeded to appoint
officers for the ensuing year, when Sir Martin Archer
Shee was unanimously re-elected President.
COUNCIL—NEW LlST.—Charles Landseer, William
Etty, Abraham Cooper, and James War, Esqs,
OLD LIST.—John Prescott Knight, Henry William
Pickersgill, Charles Robert Cockerell, and Joseph Mal-
lard William Turner, Esqs.
VISITORS IN THE LIFE ACADEMY—NEW LlST.—Ed-
ward Hodges Baily, John Prescott Knight, Charles Ro-
bert Leslie, Charles Landseer, and William Frederick
Witherington, Esqs.
OLD' Mulready, Daniel Maclise,
Henry William Pickersgill, and Thomas Unwins, Esqs.
VISITORS IN THE SCHOOL OF PAINTING—NEW LIST.
—Charles Lock Eastlake, Charles Landseer, Ramsay
Richard Reinagle, and Thomas' Unwins, Esqs.
OLD LlST.—William Etty, Solomon Alexander Hart,
John Prescott Knight, and Daniel Maclise, Esqs. •
AUDITORS RE-ELECTED.—WiIIiam Mulready, J. M.
W. Turner, Esqs., and Sir Richard Westmacott.