Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 483
, under-takes all delicate commissions, and pays thenecessary visits to the newspaper critics ; and,after all, solicits no other recompense than thehonour of seeing his own head sketched everyyear in the back-ground of a picture. After aday employed in fluttering hither and thither, hewill tell you… … THE ARTISTS* FRIEND. 307 than the painter himself, who generally has only the advantage of the first of thesesensations. In the provinces, the Artists Friend, or, in other words, the hanger-on of thetheatrical troop, is a lieutenant, or a lawyer, or a lawyers clerk, or a liquor-mer-chant, or the…
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