...eye, and by him were brought into startling prominence. Patmore asked me my opinion, and I told him that if the picture had been extended downwards there...his slaves and exclaiming, " You damned niggers." This criticism seemed to please him greatly, and he said " Is not that what I have been doing all my...

...his opinion of Mr. Sargent's famous portrait (now hanging in the National Portrait Gallery), replied that if the picture had been extended downwards there must have appeared the handle of a whip. Patmore would then have been revealed as a sort of Southern planter on the point of thrashing his slaves...

...cannot understand that the business of the portrait-painter is to tell the truth. That the truth happens when the work was finished and he went down to Lymington...himself on his power of dealing blows to the adversary." Mr. Sargent had missed the aspect of "seer," which in later years had alone seemed to Mr. Champneys...

...Edmund Gosse, "Coventry Patmore," p. 178. held a whip, and that it might have been the portrait of a Southern planter on the point of thrashing his slaves and exclaiming, "You damned niggers!" the poet exclaimed: "Is not that what I have been doing all my life?" Not content with the two portraits,...