Escuela gratuita de dibujo del Consulado de Buenos Aires (1799-1823)

A free drawing school costing twenty pesos a month, opened by the merchant guild of Buenos Aires in March 1799 and refused royal funding a year later because the Crown had graver urgencies. It was revived in 1815 by a friar whose printed sermon paid for it, taught at night to a hall of two hundred, and ended as the preparatory drawing class of the university.