Show Artists Painted I 1 comments E even ven great masters of the brush are arc on record as E employing 0 their genius for the small purpose of plaguing enemies wion it compa comes to getting yow your own lack back the point brush may pio cioe e might mightier ler than the pen our great artists nowadays seldom ft cond to lit in their paintings but tills this vas ns a coal common trick ationo even the fir first strank runic nien men rot inot so eo long ogo ago lor for instance that ec eccentric centle genius geilus whistler iier hesitated to u us all hla his powers for getting his own lack back lie iio was inas admittedly an adept in 6 the gentle art of making enemies and Ms ills resentment at real or fancied insult took at times a a fantastic form on one occasion lift lie quarreled with the gentleman aorl for whom lie he had find painted the famous peacock room koom find and took tits liti revenge by painting a life size portrait ot of him as a devil complete with hoofs and horns similar was ins the unenviable of sir stobert sheard a man noted for ills his penurious habits who by incurring the resentment resent mont of if Il found himself depleted in one of that artists pictures as aa a miser sitting in judgment on a dog cog for rob robbing bini his kitchen hitchen on this coming to the it irs of sheard a son aon tho the latter repaired to the pa litters house in tits absence and destroyed the canns on oil mother another ocen slon n For trill of a nobleman aich N Il find r lint t ed cd was mas returned to tho artist ni as being nothing betto bette than a gross earl cabure and ent refused the next day the breeched rec clied this let ter mr air Il hogarth begs to inform ills hh lordship that blidt if he does not acrid for fop his picture three days it will be disposed of with the addition of a tall tail and some other et little tie append ages to mr air hare the famous wild beast man mr 11 luning given that gentleman a conditional promise of it fur HII an nature on hla him lordships lord ships refu refusal re 11 lilt he money was waa promptly paid and the picture removed liello lillo engaged upon tits his picture tho talking taking of souza horace ver net received rot elved a call from a member now deceased of tho the rothschild fa fam M lly ily who mho asked him what lie he would charge to paint hla his portrait upon being informed that 1000 ana a 8 t the he figure he cited ailed angrily n I 1 I 1 wout went pay such a ridiculous price I 1 I very ivery nell replied the artist some day I 1 will make a portrait of you for nothing and he was na as good tie is tits hla word for there and lie painted the great financiers face upon tile body of a filing I in chose hands lie placed two money bags each marked ill 1 BOO 11 A painting of himself in the act of holding tits hta nose with avith one hand title lille with the other ho he pushed away a dish of fash was mas tile the coart threat of sit hit joshua to lU bertson his on oil tile the battels s press ing for pity payment ment of it long standing account llie poor tradesman was lioi rifled such a work nork must be or all the world that knew him for sir joshuaa Jos huas fishmonger would credit the painters innuendo lie ile therefore tin had d to sacrifice sac lila its money and acquire the sketch by catica fling the bill A case of the paint brush being mightier than the pon pen london answers |