![]() ![]() "No decent family can hang such sights on their walls," said a typical sally in the London Examiner newspaper, lamenting "another indulgence of what we had hoped was a classical, but are now convinced is a lascivious mind". ![]() He beat Constable to election as a Royal Academician and won royal portrait commissions, but lost standing by ignoring demands for more modesty on his figures than wisps of muslin or strategically-placed clumps of grass. Sarah Burnage, one of a trio of art historians behind the project, said: "We aim to drag Etty's art from the doldrums of historical obscurity and give the world a fresh chance to study his truly remarkable work."Ī high-minded bachelor whose private life has defied all attempts to unearth smut, Etty was acclaimed in his day but eventually sidelined because of his defiance of moralising, often hypocritical, critics. ![]() The biggest exhibition of his work since the 1950s, the six-month show is the flagship of an Etty revival which follows three years of intensive research into his life and obsessive reworking of male and female nudes. ![]()
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