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 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