ANCIENTS

Ancients

The Ancients, were a group of young English artists and others who were brought together around 1824 by their attraction to archaism in art and admiration for the work of William Blake, who was a generation of two older than the group. The core members of the Ancients were Samuel Palmer, George Richmond, and Edward Calvert. Except for Palmer, the central members who were artists were all students at the Royal Academy of Arts. They met in Blake's apartment, dubbed the "House of Interpreter" and at the home of Samuel Palmer in the Kent village of Shoreham. The Ancients made little impact on the English artistic scene during the ten years or so that the ...

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ancients

Noun

  1. The people of classical antiquity, especially such writers and philosophers.


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