Academy of Saint Luke
art school, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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establishment by Ramsay
- In Allan Ramsay
…first circulating library (1726); the Academy of St. Luke, for instruction in painting and drawing (1729); and a theatre (1736–39), eventually closed by extremists in the Church of Scotland presbytery, who found legal justification in the 1737 Licensing Act. He retired in 1740 but remained active until his death.
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