Our Comic Artist Paints
The Visitor: "It's not meant to be comic is it?"
An artist, better-known for his humorous cartoons in the weekly illustrated periodicals, gets exasperated when people question his more serious paintings. The cartoon could have been taken from life. John Hassall was well-known for his posters and humorous art, but continued to paint seriously and exhibition at the R.I. and galleries throughout the world into the 1920s
Picture No
13336319
Media ID
46174538
Size
3920px x 5839px
(5.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by John Hassall in The Sketch', 5 April 1905, page 401
Date
1905
