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London, May 3, "The picture of the year" at the Royal Academy, where a private view was held to-day, is the fine portrait of the King, in naval_uni form, painted by Sir Arthur Cope.
'The picture was painted in 1928 and hung for years in the Diploma Gallery. Its "come-back" on' the occasion of the King's Silver Jubilee is most appropriate, as it is considered particularly fine study of 'The portrait occupies a place of honour in the Great Central Hall, 'A bronze bust of the King, in the uniform of a Field-Marshall, is also in the hall; a marble statue displays him in the' robes of a Knight of the Garter; and, finally, he is shown in robes of state in a sketch model for statue at New Delhi executed by the late C. S. Jagger.
'A bronze statuette of the Prince of Wales in tennis garb, by Jagger, occupies a prominent place in the Academy.
Captain Adrian Jones, the sculptor, has a fine equestrian statue of Gen. Botha on show.
Portraits of 'Mussolini, President Roosevelt, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Montagu formal, Governor of the' Bank of England, strike a familiar note In the Academy.
Other works worthy of note include lone accepted from a hair-dresser, and tone from an ex-railway porter." The hhalr-dresser's picture is 'a vivid re-Presentation of a woman's cubicle in hairdressing saloon.—Reuter.
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