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 Dutch Family house. Roses are strewn in the foreground. Canvas, 44 inches by 36 inches. Exhibited in Paris, 1883, in an exhibition of masterpieces. Sales: — J. van Leeuwaarden, widow of P. Merkman, Haarlem, September 21, 1773, No. 4. Sales: — Vicomte du Bus de Gisignies, Brussels, May 7, 1882, No. 33. This painting came into the collection via the bequest of Mary M. Emery. Portrait of a Dutch Family Portrait of a Dutch Family is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in circa 1635 and now in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati. The painting is one