3-020-984 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"David Showing The Head Of Goliath To Saul" (RA Gold Medal Painting), by Miss Louisa Starr, 1868. 'Our readers are probably aware that, besides the annual prizes of the Royal Academy for drawings and models from the life, copies of antique works, and studies in perspective, every alternate year the Council of the Royal Academy offer a handsome gold medal, and a premium of £60, for each of the best original works in painting and sculpture, in illustration of subjects given out some months before the distribution; and also a gold medal for the best architectural design, and a travelling studentship for one year of £100...In the competitive exhibition for these prizes, on the evening of the 10th of December, the ninety-ninth anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy, there were nine paintings of the subject proposed - namely, "David Showing the Head of Goliath to Saul." The design of the successful work - that of a young lady, Miss Louisa Starr - is represented in our Engraving'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.