 In the wake of the success of Pandora , Etty moved to an apartment in Buckingham Street , near the Strand , where he was to reside for the remainder of his working life . Shortly afterwards he applied to become an Associate of the Royal Academy for the first time , and on 1 November was duly elected , beating William Allan by 16 votes to seven . ( The Times , at this time still hostile to Etty for his perceived indecency , sneered that " this cannot be as an honour conferred on Mr. Etty : if it were , he has deserved and should have obtained it long ago " . The same reviewer did concede that Etty 's copy of Tintoretto 's Esther Before <unk> was " the most important picture in the room " in their report on an exhibition held at the British Institution of significant copies of paintings . ) 
