There is already promise that the Jlext t exhibition at the Royal Academy wilMontain work of an exceptional charter. ! From Kensington report comes thagfthe President will be represented by tw«[important pictures. The first is a ifpvel rendering of the story of Perseusmnd Andromeda; the former being ffiresented as descending from the skies Jlpon Pegasus, which, it will be remembwed, sprang from the blood of Medusa wen she was decapitated by the Sunjgod. Andromeda crouches in shadow beajgath the dragon, which forms an arch ovesfper. The picture is upright in form, ami is distinguished both in compositionmcd colour. The second of Sir Frejprie Leighton's pictures bids fair to be wen more popular than that just named! It depicts the old Greek legend of the bjped seed-corn springing up to earth upoaathe coming of spriog, as typified in the rejnrn. of Persephone from the lower worfil to her mother Demeter. Here, again||the subject is remarkable for its beautf of colour and form, and it will nobljsrepresent tbe artist in the Leeds Municipal Gallery, which is its ultimate destination^?
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7830, 7 April 1891, Page 6
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