What role did Joseph Banks play in the Royal Academy?
He was a visitor
He helped establish it
He was president
He was a patron
Answer
Joseph Banks was a founding member of the Royal Academy, a British learned society for the promotion of the arts, especially painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and literature. The Academy was founded in 1768 by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a painter, and other artists and patrons, including Banks, who was a naturalist and explorer. Banks was also a member of the Royal Society, a scientific organization founded in 1660.
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