aylor.
On the easel is a portrait of Charles Keene, then recently dead.

[66] This is all very well; but as the alleged visit took place in 1870,
the year in which Caldecott came up to London, and as Mark Lemon died on
the 23rd of May in that year, and that not suddenly, the story is hardly
above suspicion.

CHAPTER XXIII.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1882-95.

Mr. William Padgett--Mr. E. M. Cox--Mr. J. P. Mellor--Sir F.
Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.--Mr. G. H. Jalland--Monsieur Darre--Mr. E.
T. Reed--His Original Humour--"Contrasts" and "Prehistoric
Peeps"--Approved by Sports Committees and School Classes--Mr.
Maud--A Useful Drain--Mr. Bernard Partridge--Fine Qualities of his
Art--Mr. Everard Hopkins--Mr. Reginald Cleaver--Mr. W. J.
Hodgson--Excites the Countryside--Miss Sambourne--Sir Frank
Lockwood, Q.C., M.P.--Mr. Arthur Hopkins--Mr. J. F. Sullivan--Mr.
J. A. Shepherd--Mr. A. S. Boyd--Mr. Phil May--A Test of
Drunkenness--Mr. Stafford--"Caran d'Ache"--Conclusion.

At the same time as the single sketch signed with a swan (by Mr.
Thompson), Mr. William Padgett, the excellent painter of poetical
landscape, made his unique appearance. He had been arranging the
mock-aesthetic costumes for Mr. Burnand at the Prince of Wales's Theatre,
when "The Colonel" was about to deal a crushing blow at the absurdities
of the "artistic craze." Mr. Padgett had painted the large picture
called "Ladye Myne"--a burlesque of the "greenery-yallery" type then in
fashion at the Grosvenor Gallery; and the departure of the apostle of
the movement from these shores for the United States inspired the
painter with the words and the drawing of the mourning "Ariadne," which
were shown to the Editor of _Punch_ and forthwith inserted. The only
other stranger of 1882 was Mr. Pigott, with a single sketch entitled
"Cultcha."

The six years that followed were almost a close time for outsiders. The
only arrival of 1883 was Mr. Everard Morant Cox, an artist of dainty
imagination and graceful pencil, whose seven charming little cuts
appeared at intervals up to July, 1890. The next was Mr. John Page
Mellor, barrister-at-law (appointed in 1894 Solicitor to the Treasury),
who contributed three drawings from 1886 to 1888--"Sub Punch and
Judice" (p. 305, Vol. XCI.), which was partly re-drawn; a skit on the
proposed Wheel and Van Tax (p. 205, Vol. XCIV.); and the "Judges going
to Greenwich," signed with mystic Roman