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REPORT 
 
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 REUIEUI OF FINRNCIRL POSITION 
 
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 TO HIS EXEELLENCY 
 
 (^\)e rruost Hon. tQe rrtarquis of Qansdowne 
 
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TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST HON. 
 
 The Marquis of Lansdowne 
 
 GDUERNOR-GENERRL, 
 
 Pstran of the Rnyal Canadian McadEmi] of Rrts 
 
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 May it please your Excellency: • -^ 
 
 On behalf of the Council of the Royal Canadian Aca- 
 demy, I have the honour to present the following report, 
 reviewing its resources, present financial position and pros- 
 pective policy. 
 
 The balance sheet for 1885 is submitted, and also the 
 accounts for the present year up to date, showing our position 
 after the close of the exhibition, the main business of the 
 year being completed. 
 
 Our accounts show that for two years we have carried 
 forward a balance of cash apparently somewhat out of pro- 
 portion to our revenue. This has been done, not because 
 there was no purpose to which we could apply it, but because 
 the sum at our disposal was not large enough to deal success- 
 
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fully with the projects we had in view, and we deemed it 
 wiser to husband our resources uniil we could effect perma- 
 nent good, rather than fritter them away in premature 
 attempts. We have felt this to be especially necessary in 
 view of the uncertain nature of our income. 
 
 It mav be well to deal first with the several sources from 
 which our income has been derived. These, so far, have been 
 three : 
 
 1st. Annual subscriptions of artist members. 
 
 2nd. Subscriptions of honorary members. 
 
 3rd. Grants from the Dominion Government. 
 
 Upon the first item we ought to be able to reckon with 
 some certainty, but allowance has to be made for arrears 
 arising from the very precarious income derived from the 
 practice of Art. This has been seriously felt during the 
 past three years of depression, during which it has been 
 impossible to collect our members' subscriptions, and much 
 remains unpaid. Our revenue for the current year from this 
 source should be $510 ; so far we have only received $435, of 
 of which $215 was for arrears. In 1885 we only collected 
 $175. 
 
 The second item is the amount contributed annually by 
 our honorary members. 
 
 In Lord Lome's address at the op<ening of the Academy 
 in 1880, he expresired a hope that every gentleman of note in 
 Canada would be found upon this roll of honorary members, 
 
and give their aid " as entertaining a love for Art, and a desire 
 that Art should be enabled to assist in the most practical 
 manner the interests of the country." This appeal of our 
 founder met, at first, with a liberal response, Lord Lome him- 
 self heading the list with $500. Exclusive of the Governor- 
 General's .subscription, we received from hon. members in 1880, 
 Sl,]23; in 1881, ^511; in 1882, $1,083; in 1883, $710; in 
 1884. $540; in 1885, $235; and this year $308, exclusive of 
 your Excellency's donation. ^ ; 
 
 Our published list of honorary members retains the names 
 of many persons who have not continued to subscribe, or to 
 subscribe regularly, and thus convo rs an exaggerated idea of 
 the support thus accorded to us. ,v . were reluctant to omit 
 the names of those who had subscribed and promised to con- 
 tinue, but it has been decided by the (Council that the list 
 should now show only those who have subscribed regularly, or 
 have otherwise given us valuable assistance. 
 
 From the Dominion Government we received, in 1884, a 
 grant of $2,500, and in 1885, $2,000. 
 
 In considering our expenditure, it is necessary to refer to 
 the objects we have mainly in view, as being those from which 
 most practical benefits to the cause of *Art may be expected. 
 
 Organization is the first necessity. The administration of 
 the society therefore forms the first main item of expenditure. 
 Under this heading are included the secretary's salary, station- 
 ery and printing, and mileage allowed to members of the 
 
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 Council attending meetings. Last year the expense of admin- 
 istration amounted to $515.93, which is rather less than the 
 average amount. 
 
 Our annual meeting and exhibition is the most import- 
 ant feature of the year's proceedings. First, undoubtedly, 
 among the objects of the Academy should come whatever 
 helps and encourages the artists to the attainment of a higher 
 standard of excellence in their work. Meetings for exhibition 
 and comparison of their works, interchange of thought and 
 mutual criticism, are indispensable. 
 
 As an artist can learn nothing from the exhibition of his 
 work unless he himself sees the exhibition, it is most desir- 
 able that all should be enabled to attend. In order to attain 
 this it is necessary that some allowance for travelling expenses 
 should be made to those at a distance from' the place of 
 exhibition, as well as the payment of freight upon exhibits. 
 
 The expense of framing is heavy, and so few pictures 
 are sold, tliat few artists derive pecuniaiy gain from the 
 exhibitions, and they are unwilling or unable to afford long 
 journe3's to attend them. Hitherto all those not officially 
 required to be present at the annual meeting and exhibition 
 have been obliged to do so at their own expense. 
 
 The outlay for the annual meeting and exhibition in- 
 cludes the travelling expenses of the Committee of Arrange- 
 ments, members of the Council and officers officially 
 required to attend, all necessary cost of rooms, hanging, 
 
lights, pi'inting, etc., and the carriage of pictures to the 
 exhibition. This year we have also paid the return freight 
 of works by members of the Academy. 
 
 As an offset to these charges we have, except when the 
 exhibition is held in Montreal, the admission fees of visitors 
 to the exhibition ; these, however, have never as yet been 
 sufficient to balance the expenses, and a loss of varying 
 amount has been the result. In 1880, at Ottawa, the net 
 loss was $901.2() ; in 1881, at Halifax, $922.28 ; in 1882, at 
 Montreal, $1,045.30 (this inclurled $800 for the engraving of 
 diplomas, and the Art Association, in giving us the use of 
 their gallery, reserved the admission fees to the exhibition) ; 
 in 1888, at Toronto, $861.84 ; in 1884, at Montreal, $597.73— 
 an extra exhibition held in St. John, N.B., costing $736.33 ; 
 in 1885, at Toronto, the loss was $252.4(5 ; this year, 1886, at 
 Ottawa, the net loss, after paying return freight on pictures, 
 is $305.47. 
 
 In the earlier years of the existence of the Academy, it 
 was our practice to give such small sura as we could afford 
 in aid of Art education in the city where our meeting was 
 held. Our resources, however, with a continually diminishing 
 income from our honorary members' subscriptions, were found 
 barely sufficient for the maintenance of the Society, and keep- 
 ing up the exhibitions, in the hope of being able to accom- 
 plish more, we applied to the Dominion Government for an 
 annual granf), such as is given to the Royal Society, stating 
 our objects and claims in a memorandum which was laid 
 
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 before the Government of Canada, the members of Parliament 
 and our friends throughout the country. This memorandum 
 set forth the services that the Academy had rendered to the 
 cause of Art by its exhibitions and organization, as well as 
 the establishment, by the gift of our pictures, of the National 
 Gallery at Ottawa. It set forth further the need of. higher 
 Art education than that attempted by the existing Art 
 Schools, and prayed for aid to enable us, while keeping up 
 our meetings and exhibitions, to give artists and advanced 
 Art students some such facilities for study as are to be had in 
 other countries. '< 
 
 In reply to this appeal the Government gave the grants 
 already stated, and we hope the aid may be continued ; but of 
 this we have no positive assurance. 
 
 In 1885 and 1886, we placed $800 at the disposal of the 
 committees of resident Academicians in Montreal, Ottawa 
 and Toronto, to be by them expended in aid of study from 
 the life. These grants were intended to enable the Academi- 
 cians in each city to feel their way to the best method of 
 accomplishing our purpose in each place. In Montreal and 
 Ottawa, the resident committees deemed it best to aid the 
 higher classes of the Art Schools in connection with the Art 
 Associations ; this mode of dealing with the question may 
 require some modification in order to give our efforts a wider 
 scope. In Toronto an independent drawing class, for study 
 from the living model, was opened under the direction of the 
 resident Academicians, but has been temporarily discontinued, 
 
as it was found that without competent instruction in ana- 
 tomy, illustrated by suitable casts, etc., the good results to be 
 expected from serious study of the living model could not be 
 attained. All this requires the expenditure of a much larger 
 sum than the committee had at their disposal, and they there- 
 fore determined not to spend more money until they had 
 enough to make their work really effective. » . 
 
 Applications have been made to the Academy for grants 
 in aid of Art Schools on the ground that our grant from the 
 Government was given for distribution among Art Schools. 
 We have already shown that this was not the ground upon 
 which Government aid was asked or obtained. To become 
 the distributing medium" for Government aid to Art Schools 
 would be to assume functions outside of our province and 
 destructive to our usefulness. If the Government of Canada 
 desire to give aid to Art Scliools, it would be better to give it 
 to them direct. The part assigned to the Academy in Art 
 education is not the same as that of existing Art Schools, but 
 in continuance of it. At present Art students who have gone 
 through the Art School course, and desire such further facili- 
 ties for study as will fit them for the successful practice of 
 their profession, are obliged * go abroad. While we recog- 
 nize most fully the value of the artistic training of the Old 
 World, we feel the necessity of making the home education of 
 our artists as complete as possible, antl it is this that we are 
 hoping to accomplish. 
 
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 We are now face to face M'ith the question — How can 
 we best use the means we have in hand, and how can the 
 amount be increased if insufficient ? 
 
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 To recapitulate. The work we have before us is three- 
 
 1. The administration of the society. 
 
 2. Exhibitions and meetings of -ambers. 
 
 3. Higher Art education. 
 
 Our financial resources are also threefold : 
 
 1. Subscriptions of artist members. 
 
 2. Subscriptions of honorary members. 
 
 3. Grants from the Dominion Government. 
 
 The annual subscriptions of artist members should nearly 
 cover the ordinary expenses of administration. 
 
 It is certainly desirable that we should rely as much as 
 possible upon the support of the public, and as little as pos- 
 sible upon Government aid. To this end it is desirable that 
 the subscriptions of our honorary members should be devoted 
 to some object in winch they may feel a distinct local and 
 personal interest ; for higher Art Schools, such as we have 
 indicated, we believe a strong financial support could bo 
 obtained in the large cities whore, for convenience of artists 
 and Art students, they must necessarily be located. 
 
 The exhibitions and meetings of the Academy, although 
 the most important to the cause of Art of all the subjects 
 
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 upon onr programme, do not appeal in the same way to 
 individuals among our supporters ; therefore, these seem the 
 most fitting objects to which the aid of the general Govern- 
 ment should mainly be applied, so as to set free the subscrip- 
 tions of our honorary members, and enable them to be devoted 
 entirely to our scheme of higher Art education. 
 
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 We have already pointed out the desirability of facili- 
 tating the attendance of all our artist members at the annual 
 meetings and exhibitions. To do this, paying 2|c. per mile 
 for the journey as a partial allowance of the **xpen8es, 
 would involve an outlay of about $1,050, supposing all the 
 menibers to attend. If we secured the attendance of 
 two-thirds of our present membership, it would add about 
 $700 to the expense of the annual meeting. ; :v • 
 
 It is manifest that the work of the Academy, be it much 
 or little, must be continuous. Money spent upon any of our 
 objects one year, if not continued the next, is almost thrown 
 away. A comparatively small sum, such as the $2,000 
 granted last year by the Government, continued annually, can 
 be employed so as to lay a foundation of Art culture, widen- 
 ing with the progress of the country, and providing for 
 present wants. Much more could be advantageously and 
 profitably done with a larger sum, but whatever amount the 
 Govenniient may see fit to entrust us with can be used to 
 infinitely more advantage if wo can rely upon its continuance. 
 
 Your Excellency will observe from the foregoing figures: 
 
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 1. That we calculate upon our expenses of administration 
 being nearly provided for by the annual subscriptions of our 
 artist members. V ;' v 
 
 2. That we must expect to provide for the deficit upon 
 
 our annual meeting and exhibition, say $500 
 
 To which it is desirable to add for travelling allowance 
 
 to members, say 700 
 
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 We should then be in a position to devote the remainder 
 of the Government grant and all the subscriptions of our hon- 
 orary members to such projects of Art education as we have 
 suggested. 
 
 We need not remind your Excellency that by our con- 
 stitution all our acts must be submitted to the Governor- 
 General for his approval, and that we are glad to and do 
 present the account of our expenditure for your Excclleu'^y's 
 consideration. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 L. R. O'Brien, 
 
 President. 
 Toronto, March 30th, 18H6. 
 
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