...admitted to the Grosvenor Gallery in which the illeducated conceit of the artist so nearly approaches the aspect of wilful imposture. " I have seen and...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Ruskin was too ill to be present at the trial, but Whistler gave his evidence with his unparalleled...

...admitted works into the gallery in which the illeducated conceit of the artist so nearly approached wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of Cockney...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The latter is Whistler's reply to the cross-examining Attorney-General — Sir John Holker — who...

...posthumous prices. Good-morning." Ruskin's statement with reference to one of Whistler's pictures that " he never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face " led to a famous libel action and the awarding of one farthing damages to the aggrieved artist. Whistler...

...famous libel suit brought by the painter against John Ruskin. In Fors Clavigera the latter had written, "I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The suit resulted in the award of one farthing damages to Whistler without costs, a verdict which,...

...imposture. I have seen," he said, "and heard much of Cockney impudence before THE WINDSOE MAGAZINE. ijovv, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." It" was into this blind and inartistic age that a man whom Nature had gifted above boyhood to his many...

...in which he won a farthing's damages from Kuskin, who had written of one of the "Nocturnes" that he "never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face," and adding further remarks on "works in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached...

...do." To this extraordinary apotheosis succeeded an equally extraordinary condemnation of Whistler : 44 For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." This pot of paint flung in the face of the public had reference to the nocturne in black and gold shown...

...do." To this extraordinary apotheosis succeeded an equally extraordinary condemnation of Whistler : " For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." This pot of paint flung in the face of bhe public had reference to the nocturne in black and gold shown...

...approaches the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred...guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face."—[Fors Clavigera, Letter LXXIX.] By this outburst of negative admiration and reverse enthusiasm...

...for us by our masters and our pictures have been chosen by ourselves.' If someone like Charles Hall6 could guide us in our choice of pictures as he does...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,...