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 (Frans Hals, Frick) 1857, No. 671 ; at the Portrait Exhibition, The Hague, 1903, No. 38 ; at the Guildhall, London, 1903, No. 175 ; and at the Royal Academy, 1907, No. 47. In the collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp, No. 507." In his 1974 catalog of Frans Hals works, Seymour Slive mentions that the painting was shown at all of the shows Hofstede de Groot listed as a portrait of the Admiral De Ruyter, but the art historian Théophile Thoré-Bürger ("W. Bürger") first mentioned in 1860 that the portrait looks nothing like the famous De Ruyter portrait by Ferdinand Bol in the