The Worshipful Company of Painters Otherwise Painter Stainers Its Hall Pictu
The Worshipful Company of Painters Otherwise Painter Stainers Its Hall Pictu
Walter Hayward Pitman
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" Again, another minute, " one Sherman, a book- seller, by the Town Ditch, which is no painter, maketh defective work, which is commonly sold, at many booksellers' shops about the City. " March loth, 1673, is a minute recording that the " painter of Joseph and Pottifer's wife, and the Foure Elements, be fined ^3 6s. 8f/. For such bad worke. " These powers, of course, the Company still possess, and I well remember a speech made in this hall by the late Lord Leighton, P. R. A. , when he was admit...ted to the honorary livery in 1884. 30 The Palnter-Stainers' Company. He referred to this authority, to paint out and remove bad work, and he mentioned his own satisfaction that if our Company visited the Royal Academy on varnishing day, he trusted they would be merciful to his personal work, now that he was one of the craft ; but he confessed readily that there would be plenty of scope in the R. A. Exhibition for a due and proper exercise of the ancient and undoubted rights of the Company. The Company were also appreciated as assessors, or judges, of the value of artistic work.
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