NOTABLE PICTURES AT THE BRITISH ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
The New York " Post's " copyrighted cable lrom London says: "The private view ab the Academy fco-day was a very brilliant affair. Gladstone, looking remarkably well, was among the earliest arrivals. He chiefly admired Frank Micksee's ' Passing of Arthur,' a very poetical illustration of Tennyson's poem ; bu*. the artists unanimously vote Orchardson's 'Coming of Age of a Young Duke,' as the picture of the year. It is a banquet scene of the ancient regime with marvellously skillful accessories. He recently refused £3,000 for it, as £5,000 in his price. The next artistic success is " The Prodigal Son," by John Swan, the animal painter, who exhibited in the Salon last year. The exhibition, as a whole, shows little originality by academicians but much good work by outsiders. Sargent's portrait of Irving is unworthy of him,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 372, 29 May 1889, Page 5
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140NOTABLE PICTURES AT THE BRITISH ACADEMY EXHIBITION. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 372, 29 May 1889, Page 5
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