ANOTHER SENSATION

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9

ANOTHER SENSATION

REJECTION BY ACADEMY

PAINTER OF ROYALTY

(Received April 27, 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON, April 25.

There is a furtlier Eoyal Academy surprise. Mr. Homerville, Hague, who has painted more Royal portraits than any other living artist, is applying for a siimmons against the hanging committee to show cause why they rejected a painting.of a band playing at St. James's Palace. A friend of Hague says that the Academy has not accepted a number of Hague's pictures since 1914, and the artist thinks it is time to take drastic action. The Magistrate at the Marlborough Street Police Court informed Mr. Homerville Hague that he had no power to summons the committee of the Academy to show why the pictures were rejected. He suggested that Mr. Homerville Hague should lay an information. The latter says that he will do so and that he is also going to ask his Majesty to withdraw the Academy's charter. He is determined to continue the fight even to the Privy Council. It was reported by cable yesterday that a sensation on the«eve of the Eoyal Academy Exhibition, which is to open on May 3, had been created by the resignation from associateship of Mr. Stanley Spencer, A.R.A., because the president, Sir William Llewellyn, and the council, refused to hang two of his five pictures. The rejections are entitled "Lovers" and "St Francis and His Birds." The hanging. committee did not ihink they were advantageous to his reputation or to the influence of the Academy. s ■ Mr. Spencer declared that the action was outrageous and that he would exhibit all five pictures himself. The, Eoyal Academy refused to return the accepted pictures to Mr. Spencer, who said he would, do everything to get them.