Royal Academy of Arts Myra Hindley, a convicted murderer. The painting was vandalised while on display. In 2004, the Academy attracted media attention for a series of financial scandals and reports of a feud between Rosenthal and other senior staff. These problems resulted in the cancellation of what were expected to have been profitable exhibitions. In 2006, it attracted the press by erroneously placing only the support for a sculpture on display, and then justifying it being kept on display. The Academy also hosts an annual Royal Academy summer exhibition of new art, which is a well-known event on the London social calendar. In
Portrait of a Young Man (Bellini, Royal Collection) Portrait of a Young Man (Bellini, Royal Collection) Portrait of a Young Man is a c.1505 oil on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini. It is the latest surviving portrait by the artist, drawing on the work of Antonello da Messina and Dutch painters of the time. It is also the only portrait in which he included a landscape behind the sitter. He signed it on a cartouche on the trompe l'oeil marble parapet in the foreground. The work was bought by Consul Smith and then passed into the British Royal Collection in 1762 when George III of the United Kingdom