Is Boy Artist’s Picture A Copy?
ANOTHER ACADEMY SENSATION \ , Received Thursday, 11 p.m. LONDON, April 30. The second strange happening on the eve of the Royal Academy relates to a canvas entitled ‘‘ On Board the Hispaniola,” by. a sixteen-year-old Covent Garden salesman. The picture was widely discussed and was removed from the walls as the President was convinced that it was copied from a book illustration of Stevenson’s ‘(Treasure Island.” The boy artist k denies that he ever read ‘‘Treasure Island” or that he had seen the book, though he saw the play. He says he painted the picture entirely from imagination. ' Neuritis Blamed LONDON, April 30. The Daily Express interviewed Reginald Eves, the painter of the photographic pictures. He says he did a foolish thing;-' He was suffering from neuritis and used the photos to save time. He recalls, however, that Canaletto, the noted painter of Venetian subjects, used a camera obscura in painting the architectural details of his pictures.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 May 1931, Page 3
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