“‘I don’t vant a red lion. “White Horse” is the name of my Inn.’
“‘Then you had better change the name of your inn, for if I paint you a white horse, it vill look like a red lion.’
“Now my frient he could paint nothings but red lions.”
Which all goes to show that you cannot escape your personality, no matter how much you try. For years after would be heard coming from a group of painters:
“When I got to my studio this morning, there was a red tail sticking out of the door and I was afraid to go in.”
It was Robert Reid who started us making caricatures. When Elihu Vedder left us to go home, he drew a picture of a dodo with these verses underneath it:
There was an old dodo of Rome
Who said, “If I’d but stayed at home
With my Omar Khayyam
Such an artist I am,