AN ARTIST AND HIS SUBJECT.-AMUSING CASE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3808, 28 September 1883, Page 4

AN ARTIST AND HIS SUBJECT.AMUSING CASE.

In the City of London Court yesterday, before Mr Commissioner Kerr, an action was tried at the instance of MrD. Yitalis, artist, of Little Georjre-street, City, who souylit to recover from Mr C. Tiehiaz, superintendent of grain ships, Great St. Helen's, the sum of .CS^beiim , balance due for a portrait, in oil, of hiinseif.—Tho defence was that the contract had not been carried out, as the picture had to bo framed and mounted, rvnd that had not been done. There was a further contention that the portrait was not a •rood likeness. The picture was produced, whereupon his Honor said, " I think it is a capital likeness. If anything, it has a more intelligent face than the ori.u-inah That, however, should be no fault.'" —The defendant's solicitor 'to the plaintiff) :_ Did you at first irive the plaintiff what is called a lobster face?— The plaintiff: lie wanted it to be a little red. (Laughter.)— The defendant's solicitor : .'Did you alter it :— The plaintiff: Certainly not.—The defendant's solicitor: Did you obliterate the primroses from the button-hole ': —The plaintiff: Yes: and have made a charge for so doing.—His Honor: That shows your common sense. (Laughter.) I say it is a wonderfully good picture for the money. There will be "judgment for the plaintiff, with costs.