Royal ACADEMY of Painting and Sculpture. This society was founded about the year 1648. The members were at first about twenty-five in number, viz. twelve officers, called ancients, eleven private members, and two syndics; but at present it consists of forty painters and sculptors. There are four perpetual rectors, nominated by the king; a director and chancellor; a secretary, who keeps the register, and countersigns the dispatches; a treasurer, twelve professors, adjuncts to the rectors and professors, six counsellors, a professor for the part of anatomy that belongs to painting and sculpture, and another for geometry and perspective.
There is also an academy of painting, sculpture, &c. at Rome, established by Lewis XIV. wherein those who have won the annual prize at Paris, are entitled to be three years entertained for their further improvement.