Sir Joshua Reynolds. Benjamin West. Thomas Sandby. Francis Cotes. John Baker. Mason Chamberlin. John Gwynn. Thomas Gainsborough. J. Baptist Cipriani. Jeremiah Meyer. Francis Milner Newton. Paul Sandby. Francesco Bartolozzi. Charles Catton. Nathaniel Hone. William Tyler. Nathaniel Dance. Richard Wilson. G. Michael Moser. Samuel Wale. Peter Toms. Angelica Kauffman. Richard Yeo. Mary Moser. William Chambers. Joseph Wilton. George Barret. Edward Penny. Agostino Carlini. Francis Hayman. Dominic Serres. John Richards. Francesco Zuccarelli. George Dance. William Hoare. Johan Zoffany. A year and a day after the foundation of the Royal Academy, it was resolved: “There shall be a new order, or rank of members, to be called Associates of the Royal Academy.” Of the first twenty Associates, the following are mentioned in the _Rainy Day_: Richard Cosway, John Bacon, James Wyatt, Joseph Nollekens, James Barry (all of whom were afterwards R.A.’s); and Antonio Zucchi, Michael Angelo Rooker, and Biagio Rebecca. The first Royal Academy exhibition was opened to the public in Pall Mall “immediately east of where the United Service Club now stands” (Wheatley) on the 26th of April, 1769. Two years later, the King assigned rooms in Somerset House to the Academy, but his offer was not utilised until the new Somerset House was ready, in 1780. Here the annual exhibitions were held for fifty-eight years. The Academicians then migrated to the eastern half of the National Gallery building in Trafalgar Square. In 1869 the removal to Burlington House was made. The history of the rise and progress of the Royal Academy, which Smith wished might have been undertaken by its secretary, Henry Howard, R.A., has been written very fully by William Sandby, and again recently by the late J. E. Hodgson, R.A., and Mr. F. A. Eaton in collaboration. [28] In this riot in St. George’s Fields, five or six people were killed by the Guards, and about fifteen wounded. [29] Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) had come to London in 1763. On presenting himself before Sir Joshua Reynolds, the following dialogue occurred: “How long have you studied in Italy?” “I never studied in Italy--I studied in Zurich--I am a native of Switzerland--do you think I should study in Italy? and, above all, is it worth while?” “Young man, were I the author of these drawings, and were I offered ten thousand a year _not_ to practise as an artist, I would reject the proposal with contempt.” [30] Dr. John Armstrong, whose poem, “The Art of Preserving Health,” was long famous, is now best remembered as the author of a few stanzas in Thomson’s _Castle of Indolence_ describing the morbid effects of indolence. Haydon writes of Fuseli: “He swore roundly, a habit which he told me he contracted from Dr. Armstrong.”