19c Tissot painting found on the net

[michael scuffil]

The boys are on the front steps of the National Gallery. That much is clear. I really don't think there's the slightest doubt they're from Newgate Street and not Hertford. They're clearly showing people around, and have an air that they know it all. Not what you'd expect from 10-year-olds who didn't even live in London.

[BevRowe]

This is a rather old thread but the picture is displayed prominently in the current edition of the London Review of Books (13 August 2020) to illustrate a long review of a book about about Tissot.

[rockfreak]

The boys appear to be the equivalent of those punks with mohicans who. in the modern age, used to waylay unsuspecting tourists at Victoria coach station and offer insistently to hump their luggage a few yards for them, perhaps to the nearest taxi, in order to earn a quid or two. The CH boys at the National Gallery are showing good Thatcherite enterprise. Previous enterprise involved giving wealthy politicians a good whacking on the old bot for a few bob. Let's see if today's generation of CH pupils have such an eye for business.

[sejintenej]

The CH boys at the National Gallery are showing good Thatcherite enterprise. Previous enterprise involved giving wealthy politicians a good whacking on the old bot for a few bob. Let's see if today's generation of CH pupils have such an eye for business.

Whatever has happened? The neo-stalinist acolyte is advocating free enterprise at last (and no trades unions recommended!) Wonders will never cease. He'll be singing Rule Britannia next to replace David Clementi

[FrogBoxed]

This is an ANCIENT thread, but I just found the image in question and knew it would likely have been mentioned here.

It’s called ‘London Visitors’ and it’s by James Tissot, a french artist who was a keen observer of the British… the write-up on the Toledo Museum of Art website is succinct, but seems fairly accurate to me.

I can’t attach an image, but click/tap the link below and you’ll see the painting with its two boys in housey.

http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/55365

(Photo added by Admin)