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showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate
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The Fine Arts did become formally established in its own right at the Academy in 1798 when a separate Drawing Academy department was introduced.
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School' of Design was opened by the University of Glasgow in 1753. It boasted
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817:Hereford College of Arts
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123:Pierre-Alexandre Aveline
101:Edinburgh College of Art
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280:Christie died in 1860.
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1259:House for an Art Lover
1254:Gracefield Arts Centre
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380:, painter and activist
282:Charles Doswell Hodder
262:Royal Scottish Academy
213:Masters of the Academy
207:Royal Scottish Academy
192:Robert Rowand Anderson
177:Royal Scottish Academy
161:Royal Scottish Academy
1598:Category:Scottish art
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1244:Gallery of Modern Art
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1147:Scottish Renaissance
914:Gray's School of Art
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734:Royal College of Art
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1412:Leith School of Art
1407:Hospitalfield House
1361:Talbot Rice Gallery
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1137:Scottish Colourists
919:Leith School of Art
807:Falmouth University
672:List of art schools
553:on 24 October 2020.
475:sculpture.gla.ac.uk
378:David Octavius Hill
275:Robert Scott Lauder
185:Stirling Art School
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1036:Nineteenth century
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