Reference code
SP/1/22
Title
F.W. Hayes, 12 Westcroft Sq., Ravenscourt Park, W., to Spielmann
Date
[1885]
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
He thinks the plan suicidal and useless. He lays out his own plan for reform, the most significant point of which is that there should an entry qualification, viz. that the artist should have already exhibited at one of the other London exhibiting societies. He has recently sent his plan for abandoning the open submission to
Sir F. Leighton, and provides details of a "permit" system administered by the Academy Secretary.