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...plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were recently found in their original box in Calke Abbey, as fresh as the day they left China nearly 250 years...
...London's progressive Tate Gallery and the conservative Royal Academy happily stick to their separate tracks. One subject on which both have been meeting head-on for some 50 years: how to spend the proceeds of the ?105,000 bequest left by 19th Century Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey (TIME, Jan. 10, 1949 et seq.). So long as the Royal Academy made all the selections, the progressives howled-and in recent years outspoken Tate Director John Rothenstein had been chuting most of the Chantrey purchases straight to the cellar...
...turned out to be Stanley Spencer's Resurrection, a large and rowdy panorama of an English country graveyard at. the last trump (TIME, May 8). Last week, oldtimers were flooding the London press with protests. Wrote a Daily Telegraph reader: "If the Chantrey trustees, impervious to public opinion, choose to exhibit these abnormal pictures, may I pray their hanging committee may hang beside them...
...eight weeks, 99,029 Britons had trooped to see the evidence - 400-odd paintings and sculptures that the Royal Academy had bought & paid for from the proceeds of the Chantrey Bequest (TIME, Jan. 10). Were they as good as the Academicians insisted? Or did they belong back in the cellars of London's Tate Gallery, from which they had been momentarily resurrected...
...last week the critics stood withTate Director John Rothenstein-hanging was too good for most of the Chantreys. With Rothenstein they agreed that over the past 70 years of Chantrey buying, the Royal Academy selection committees had picked a high percentage of bad pictures and missed a lot of good ones. Wrote a Manchester Guardian Weekly critic: "Once the eye has been thoroughly glazed by the pompous onslaught of indomitable mediocrity, it is fascinating to wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should...