Sensation (art exhibition) was over "Myra", an image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey. The Mothers Against Murder and Aggression protest group picketed the show, accompanied by Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's victims. They asked for the portrait, which is made up of hundreds of copies of a child's handprint, to be excluded to protect Johnson's feelings. Along with supporters she picketed the show's first day. Myra Hindley sent a letter from jail suggesting that her portrait be removed from the exhibition, reasoning that such action was necessary because the work was "a sole disregard not only for
Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder in London, England, called "Cosimo de' Medici as Pater Patriae".(link) The portrait is remarkable in part for the orientation of its subject. In 1997's "The Sculptures of Adrea del Verrocchio", Andrew Butterfield suggests that Botticelli may have "attempted to devise a new format for portraits" with this and his "Smeralda Bandinelli", by placing his subjects in the same "continuum" with their audience, directly engaging him. The identity of the young man in the portrait has never been agreed, but there has been considerable speculation. Writing in 1900, art historian George Noble Plunkett colorfully identified whom he believed the youth portrayed: