Council minutes, vol. 11
Volume of minutes of the Council, including the following selected entries: the terms on which it was decided to institute a class of Academician and Associate engravers, 24 and 31 January 1853; a record of the gratitude of the Council to Mr
Eyre, assistant clerk, for his preparation of an index of the books and transactions of the Royal Academy, 11 April 1853; entries relating to the request from the House of Commons for a return of information by the Royal Academy, 27 June – 13 July 1855; a note of discussions relating to the will of
J. M. W. Turner, 21 November 1855; a resolution to appoint a committee to examine the state of the Schools, 9 January 1856; a note of the decision to raise a petition against a move in Parliament to purchase the Trafalgar Square building for use as a hotel, 5 March 1856; a note of the decision of the Council to be prepared to end all further Chancery litigation over J. M. W. Turner’s will in return for £20,000 and on condition that Turner’s drawings should be made part of the collection of his works that had been presented to the nation, 14 March 1856 and proposal to create a Turner Fund following the receipt of the money from the executors of the will, 13 November 1856; transcript of detailed draft proposals for the creation of a class of Honorary Retired Members, 15 March 1858; and a record of the proposals made by the Government for the removal of the Royal Academy to a site at Burlington House, 29 January 1859.