 For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have...  What the Judge Thought - Page 114by Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1923 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1905 - 606 pages
...admitted works into the gallery in which ' the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approaches ' the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard...for flinging a ' pot of paint in the public's face.' Whistler waited a year after this, and then had his action for damages, finding that his sales had... | |
 | Printing - 1977 - 820 pages
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 | Literature - 1921 - 864 pages
...panegyric of Burne-Jones with an almost irrelevant attack on Whistler. Nothing is said to the workingmen he is writing for as to why the pictures he dislikes...view Sir Coutts Lindsay knew more about his business than Ruskin supposed, and the money taunt in the libel, which was wholly outside a critic's jurisdiction,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1989 - 442 pages
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 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1877 - 434 pages
...always in some degree forced ; and their imperfections gratuitously, if not impertinently, indulged. For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Among the minor works carefully and honourably finished in this gallery, M. Heilbuth's are far the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 720 pages
...appeared in Fors Clavigera, which is contributed to and edited by the defendant, and was as follows :— " For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The defendant said the alleged libel was privileged, as being a fair and bond fide criticism upon a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 766 pages
...appeared in Fors Clavigera, which is contributed to and edited by the defendant, and was as follows :— " For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The defendant said the alleged libel was privileged, as being a fair and bond fide criticism upon a... | |
 | History - 1879 - 740 pages
...appeared in Fors Clavigera, which is contributed to and edited by the defendant, and was as follows :— " For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The defendant said the alleged libel was privileged, as being a fair and bondfidf criticism upon a... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - Criticism - 1881 - 214 pages
...Mr. Whistler deemed to be libellous and exceeding the limits of fair criticism was as follows :,— " For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The high authority of the writer gave to this severe condemnation a special importance, and very likely... | |
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