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  • Sometimes he calls the Academicians, "Sons of Canvas;" sometimes

    History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • The rules declared that the Academy should consist of forty members only, who should be called Academicians; they were to be at the time of their admission painters, sculptors, or architects of reputation in their professions, of high moral character, not under twenty-five years of age, resident in Great Britain, and not members of any other society of artists established in London.

    Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

  • _Proh pudor_! we were to have the honor of counting among the "little boys" one whose coat was adorned with the red ribbon displayed by the "Academicians" of Vendome.

    Louis Lambert Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Royal Academicians complained that the master had lost all form in a haze of light.

    In praise of … hazy imprecision | Editorial 2011

  • As well as thousands of ceramics by Josiah Wedgwood 1730-1795, one of the world's greatest pottery manufacturers, the museum has thousands of documents, along with works by George Stubbs and Joshua Reynolds – "fellow Academicians", as Le Brun points out.

    Royal Academy calls for Wedgwood Museum to be saved 2012

  • Academicians and private-sector economists alike are heavily influenced by behavioral biases.

    Excessive Optimism and Other Economic Biases Henry Kaufman 2011

  • It contains 10,000 pieces and paintings by our fellow Academicians, Reynolds and Stubbs.

    Letter: Wedgwood collection mustn't be broken up 2012

  • Christopher Le Brun and Tracey Emin are among a group of Royal Academicians calling on the government to prevent the sale of the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.

    Royal Academy calls for Wedgwood Museum to be saved 2012

  • "The Portraits of the Academicians of the Royal Academy" 1771-2 is of great historical interest, considering that George III had established the academy only a few years earlier, in 1768, and purchased the painting shortly after it was executed.

    On the Strength of His Portraits Tom L. Freudenheim 2011

  • Academicians and political analysts can debate endlessly about the impact that Nadar had in the 2000 election, but we'll never know for certain.

    Howard Steven Friedman: Preferential Voting: Another Democracy Lesson from Australia 2010

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