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The Clique (art group)

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in 1898 by Gilbert Imray, a friend of the group. Both state that the group called themselves by this name at the time and that they formed a sketching club. Imray describes the aspirations of some members and explains that at their meetings they would all produce drawings on the same subject and ask
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They have been described as “the first group of British artists to combine for greater strength and to announce that the great backward-looking tradition of the Academy was not relevant to the requirements of contemporary art”.
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They met together at the end of the 1830s and early 1840s. The group broke up in 1843 when Dadd was incarcerated after murdering his father. The others all became successful members of the
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Information about the activities of The Clique derives mainly from the reminiscences of Frith and a short essay published in
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Greysmith, David, ‘’Richard Dadd: The Rock and Castle of Seclusion’’, London, Studio Vistas, 1973, p.76
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Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection.
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New Haven and London, Yale University Press/Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1999.
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In the 1860s another group of artists with similar ideas became known as the
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In the 1850s most members of the Clique became inveterate enemies of the
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non-artists such as Imray to judge the merits of the works.
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Portraits of members of the Clique were commissioned by
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Index


Pre-Raphaelites
O'Neil
Richard Dadd
Augustus Egg
Alfred Elmore
William Powell Frith
Henry Nelson O'Neil
John Phillip
Edward Matthew Ward
The Art Journal
Royal Academy of Arts
academic
genre painting
William Hogarth
David Wilkie
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
primitivist
William Holman Hunt
Patrick Allan-Fraser
Hospitalfield House
Arbroath
St. John's Wood Clique
Categories
English artist groups and collectives
19th-century art groups
19th century in England

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