ROYAL ACADEMY SENSATION

Evening Star, Issue 20780, 30 April 1931, Page 11

ROYAL ACADEMY SENSATION

ENLARGED PHOTOGRAPHS PAINTED OVER PICTURES SENT BACK TO ARTIST Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 29. (Received April 30, at 11 a.in.) A Royal Academy sensation has been revealed by the announcement that three pictures which were sent to the exhibition by an English artist of international repute, were returned owing to the discovery that they were based on enlarged photographs. An Academy official says that the discovery was made at; a meeting of Academicians and Associates which was called to elect new Associates, Sir William Llewellyn (president), asked the meeting to view one of tho three pictures, which had been found to be enlarged photographs thickly covered with paint, whereupon the artist’s name was immediately withdrawn and the pictures sent hack. NAME NOT REVEALED LONDON, April 29. (Received April 30, at 12.20 p.m.) The Royal Academy sensation is unprecedented, according to the ‘ Evening News,’ which interviewed the artist, who has, painted tho portraits of Royalties and many celebrities. His name is not revealed. The newspaper says it was foolish to send the pictures to the Academy, but emphasises that the artist did not attempt to secure election by an easy deception.

ARTIST'S NAME DISCLOSED LONDON, April 29. (Received April 30, at 1.30 p.m.) The ‘ News Chronicle ’ discloses that the artist is Mr Reginald Grenville Eves. Sir William Llewellyn says that the incident does not bar him from again seeking election as an associate if his artistic work reinstates him iu the eyes of tho academy.[Mr Reginald Grenville Eyes is a member of tho Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Royal Institute of Oil Painters. As a student he won the Trevellyan Goodall scholarship at tho Slade School of Art under Professor Legros. He entered the Slade School in 1891, and later gained the Slade scholarship there under Professor Brown. He has exhibited at tho Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. He won the silver medal in 1924 and tho gold medal in 1926. He has specialised in portrait painting, and is represented in the Tate Gallery by a portrait of Tuomas Hardy.]