THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
The cas-e against the Koyal Academy £a restated and enlarged in a long and vigorous letter to the " Times " by Holman Hunt. He regards the recent defence made by the Academy as conclusive proof that it means to persist in its old policy, and declares that it is now no longer a question of receiving and hanging a few picturea,. more or leps. He denounces the whole history and policy of the Academy, and describes how it first tried to crush, and then admitted successively Leighton, Millaie, Brette, Marks, Burne, Jones, and nearly every other strong young artist. He arraigns the majority ot the Academy as mediocrities who have persistently kept honest artists from their best work, encouraged incompetency, and appointed weak teachers in the Academy schools. He sums up by paying that the Royal Academy, aa now constituted, is a perpetual injury to art. This letter is likely to bring the controversy to a crisis. »
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 173, 9 October 1886, Page 2
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159THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 173, 9 October 1886, Page 2
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