RA Collection: People and Organisations
Art critic; dealer; encourager of British artists. Based in London, he travelled in Britain and the United States (1837-8). Brother of classical scholar John Carey (1756-1826) and publisher and author Mathew Carey (1760-1839).
Born: 1759
Died: 1839
Gender: Male
William Carey
Desultory Exposition Of An Anti-British System Of Incendiary Publication, &c. Intended To Sacrifice The Honor And Interests Of The British Institution, The Royal Academy, And the whole Body of the British Artists And Their Patrons, To The Passions, Quackeries, and Falsehoods Of Certain Disappointed Candidates For Prizes at the British Gallery and Admission as Associates into the Royal Academy. - Respectfully addressed to the British Institution, The Artists, and Amateurs of the United Kingdom, By William Carey. - - London:: 1819.
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William Carey
A Descriptive Catalogue Of A Collection Of Paintings By British Artists, In The Possession Of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart. By William Carey, Esq.; With Occasional Remarks, &c.By Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. [Epigraph] - London:: 1819.
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The national obstacle to the national public style considered. Observations on the probable decline or extinction of British historical painting, from the effects of the church exclusion of paintings. Respectfully addressed to his Majesty, and to ... the members of both Houses of Parliament. Gratuitous. - London: 1825
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