Show artists 7 tainted painted comments even great masters of the brush are on record as employing their genius for the small purpose of plaguing 0 enemies when it comes to getting your own back the paint brush may easily prove mightier than tile the pen our groat great artists nowadays seldom descend to personalities in their paintings but this was a common trick among even the first rank men not so long ngo ago for instance that eccentric genius whistler never hesitated to use all ills his powers for getting ills his own back he was admittedly an adept in the gentle art of making ene mies and his resentment at real or fancied insult took at times a fantastic form on one occasion he quarreled with the gentleman for whom lie he had painted the famous re peacock acock room and took his revenge by painting a life size portrait of him as a devil complete with hoofs and horns similar was the unenviable predicament of sir robert sheard a gentleman noted for his penurious habits who by incurring the resentment of hogarth found himself depleted depicted in one of that artists pictures as a miser sitting in judgment on a do dog for robbing ills his kitchen on this coming to the ears of sheardy She ards son tile the latter repaired to the painters house in his absence and destroyed the canvas on another oc occasion caslon a portrait of n nobleman which Il hogarth had painted was returned to the artist as being nothing better thin than a gross car caricature and payment refused the next day the peer received this letter mr hogarth II bc begs s to inform his lordship that if he does not send for his picture within three days it will be disposed of with the addition of a tall tail and some other little appendages ag to mr ilare hare the famous wild beast man mr 11 II having given that gentleman a conditional promise of it for an exhibition picture on his bis lordships lord ships refusal the money was promptly paid and the picture removed while engaged upon his picture tile the taking of souza horace vernet received a call from a member now deceased of the rothschild family who asked him what he would charge to paint his portrait upon being informed that was the figure he cried angrily nonsense I 1 wont pay such a ridiculous price very well replied the artist soule some day I 1 will make a portrait of you for nothing and he was as A good as his word for there and then he painted the great financiers face upon the body of a flying citizen in whose hands he placed two moneybags money bags each marked 1500 A painting of himself in the act of holding his nose with one hand hall while with the other he pushed away a dish of fish was the covert threat of sir joshua reynolds to rob t atso his fishmonger on the lat litters pressing for payment oi of a longstanding long standing account the poor tradesman was horrified such a work must be suppressed or all the world that knew him tor for sir joshuaa Jos huas fishmonger would credit the painters innuendo lie ile therefore had bad to sacrifice his bis money and acquire the sketch by cancelling the bill A case of the paint brush being mightier than the pen london answers |