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WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
Fortune Smiled On British
Master Painters
ONE MARRIED A COUNTESS WHO
WALKED INTO HIS LANDSCAPE
MANY people believe, quite wrongly, that the master painters of the past lived in lonely garrets and derived little benefit from their work. It is true that Rembrandt ended his days in poverty. But this ill-fortune was certainly not shared by the great British artista of the 18th century, most of whom became wealthy and lived happy married lives.
There were, of courte, excep- more spendthritt and eventually tions, such na the eccentric a bonkrupt,. George Merland, who although an. Industrious and successful pointer, came to an whappy
end,
The son of an aclist, Morland, was born London in 1703. For years he was driven so hard
Gains- When he was 20, borough married lovely 18-year- Joseph Turner, the son of a
old Margaret Burr, the sister of traveller who worked for his barber, was just the reverse of
The Morland, He was short and father, a wool-merchant. stout, crooked-legged and red- young couple made a song of faced, and there was no remate life at their first home in his life. His two passions Ipswich, Margaret knew just were to caeci as an artist and how to bring out the best in her
by his father that he became to keep himself to himself, But
while all young.
He worked
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headstrong, mad drunkard he worked Incessantly and dreamy, music-loving husband hoarded his wealth, leaving and he owed much of his success fortune of £140,000 when be to her sweet disposition.. died at the age of 75.
hard enough, however, to main taln Jorge household after his But marriage to Anne Ward. gradually he became more and
JACOBY BRIDGE
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This Triple Squeeze Features A Puzzler
Another
Sir
artist knight, Another odd-looking genius Joshua Reynolds, bons in Devon was William Hogarth, who was in 1723, was like Hogarth in He was a small, born in 1977. He was smail,-appearance. Lusignificant and ugly but he roundish man, with red cheeks bltkri features, Unilke liked to strut about in brightly- coloured clothes.
Hogarth he never married, but he shared with the Londoner a liking for grandeur,
Traitors' Heads
As a boy, his greatest diver slun was watching the faces of people who crowded the narrow streets of London. When the heads of traitors were stuck high on Temple Bar, a man with a telescope would charge a half- penny for a closer view, Young Hogarth seized this opportunity to draw the expressions on the watching faces. Later he work- ed as a metal. engineer, and took drawing lessons.
and
"Now there's an pmbarrassment for var, Tosh,”
go home blacks
Battle of the Bottle
-and the sort of man
who makes it so fierce
market, confessed: "I don't of winning dollars from the think 1 can over hope to export market.
make a deal Uke that in my life- I asked him how he fools time again. I bought Lucozade about finding time to relax from for £90,000. We brought it out business worries although his of the local chops and put it on working hours are 9 a.m. till sale everywhere, I won't fall 6.30 and he shows no enthusiaszn you what the prodts were last for the maxim that a man should year but they were about half work hard for his living. ("'What's So when he of the Beecham Foods range." Hic use of working hard if you
DID you have a drink last night? A soft drink? widely anywhere.
epotted the traveller's report he I'm not a Cily man but I are not interested? Hard work
When he became are of the If it was one of two dozen of the top names V.I.P.'s of London, Reynolda in the soft drink world, then you were taking part had n gilded coach, adorned with paintings of the four sea-without knowing it in the biggest battle of the scns, ills fame reached its bottle that Britain has seen.
peak when he became painter to the king. He died in 1792 and was burid In St Poul's Cathedral.
Child Marvel
drew
For today two of the really big groups in the soft drink world are talking in millions of pounds about taking over a smaller firm that makes the Corona soft drink.
On one adde there is the to be an accountant"), then Beecham combine, And, on the marringo at 25. other side there is the Schweppes When promotion seemed slow.
he wrote unavallingly — for other jobs.
The giants in this business want to make sure that that drink you had last night was
BY OBWALD JACOBY
was first playing WHEN 1
serious bridge one of any
Also in St. Paul's is the body Instructors was the late Joseph
of a third knight, Sir Thomus B. Lee, of Brooklyn. The game was auction in those days and In 1728, the London art world Lavrence. The son of an inn-group. Joe's favourito hand was one in was startled to hear that the keeper, Lawrence was born in which he and his partner set a queer Hogarth had cloped with 1708 and was soon regarded as
chilti marvel. Ho sound bidder seven tricks at a Jane, the only daughter of one no-trump contract.
Sir James Thornhill, the famous portraits and could recite long painter of murals. Sir James ens at the age of 10. When of was furious, but he need not he was 21, he painted the picture of the year in London, future.
Later he succeeded Reynolds as and the lding, recorded on canvas moot of the notable people of his time,
The
hand is an example
a one-way pressure squeeze in have worried ubout which the victim is the declarer, | daughter's
bls
Hogarth
a
not the defender, And the soon prospered and had Two Painter to squeeze operates in three suits, fine houses in London.
stopper.
everyone
Joe sat East and opened one
Tall and handsome John club. He had a perfeelly pro- Constable also met opposition British
One of the highest-pald of per bid by ouction standards and
artists WBG Georga when he felt in love you can't really criticise South Maria Bicknell, grand-daugher ile could also have had a life- with Romney, who was born in 1734. for his no-trump overenli, He of the vicar of East Bergholt, time of happy marriage, but had 20 points and a sure club Suffolk. Five years of secrot like Lord Nelson, he fell under cour ship took place before the spell of Emma, Lady Hamil- West doubled and, when their marriage. IL พย Aton. Emma was one of his many passed, proceeded to village romance, as the artist famous sitters and he called her
was born in East Bergholt, the divine lady." Suffolk, in 1776, is father was u miller and the only man in the
This blind devalion of a vilinge with any feeling for romanic wanderer, who spent urt was the local plumber. years in France and Haly, kept Jolin and he became great him away from his home In friends, and the plumber helped Ketidal, Westmorland, for 30 John with his first landscapes. years. But all this time, Mary *Romacy, bla gweed-natured wife,
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He gol a surprise reply four months later from a shrewd oldi maker, Alexander toothpaste one of their products.
Maclean. That old man, with his business looking up, wanted And the Cily pages show that someone
the to look after the odds are on the mighty account. He had
Interviewed Beecham group winning. For everyone who applied for the the City knows the man behind job, starting with the A's.
a
Millions
I took him four months to get to the L'e-to Henry George Lazell, who moved in.
the
The chairman of £34,000,000 group confessed:
"My success story starts from
I.
I went to see him the other day, I stepped out of the Great West there. We grew and grew. Road into the 10-storey centre was made secrotary, got on tha block of Beecham House and. board, and we finally sold out to went up in the chairman's the bigger Beecham group as a lift to meet this boss of a flourishing concern." £34,000,000 business empire, Luck? "Certainly
Wau Henry George Lazell. Fifty- luck," spid Lazell, overlooking Ave years old. His face Ined his own aptitude, his Own with the creases that come from industry, his own judgment in a ready smile. A sun-tanned, slaying with A flourishing grey-haired man in a light grey business, suit and a silver-groy tle,
The chlof. The new chair- man of a group of businesses
'Once only'
Beautiful Woman forte der of that sell dozens of different
husband. She had married him kinds of household names in "I think I would always have
Although he had periods of l-health, Constable was very Bucersful and much of his work was exhibited in France,
the king.
was
made
One of his travellers up in the Newcastle area reported that a selling well in the shops. local drink called Lucozade was
at the outset of his career, when | medicines, chemicals, foods, wanted to be top man in what- his work
confined to hair-treatments,
sweets, and ever I did—but it was Maclean printing signboards.
drinks,
who put me on the path to this Sixteen factories hero, 10 choir." As soon as Romney
Take factories overseas, a proft of
closer look at the where he was given a medal by though money, he said goodbye 20,000,000 last on and a sales path. There are big steps in it
to Mary and their two children, Ind went to
London to seek graph that still goes up and up. that have nothing to do with luck. They show Lazell's Only twice during The previous chairman, 18- acumen. Sir Henry Raeburn, the great is fortune. Scottish painter, was left at his prosperous years did he year-old Lord Dovercourt, re-
visit orphan when he was very young, when he was 80, his health
his family again. Bused last month to make way for this mati who Was his but he was cared for by a kind-
managing director for the past ly woman and received a good falled. Broken in spirit, I he education. Apprenticed to a eventually returned to Kendal.alx years, goldsmith, he became a pra. The over-devoted Mary nursed Ho him back to some semblance run his clght-card heart sult. mising self-taught artist.
After seven heart lends South grew into a Ane man, well over of health, but it was a tragically was down to four clubs and xx feet tall, with striking short reunion, as a year or so
E later Romney was dead. two aces. The eighth heart lead features. Charming and
was soci" well- squeezed him out of the ace of affected, he.
the in the houses of apades and West cashed the known jack.
wealthy, and they often sat for him.
This time South throw away a
club, whereupon West led a club In 1770, when Racbum wus
end Joe' made the rest of the 22, he met the girl of his dreams tricks with his clubs.
Incidentally, if anyone wants
to know why North did not rescue his partner the answer is
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in the most romantic way, was the Countess Leslie and she walked into a Jundscape scene he was sketching near Edin- burgh. I was love at first
that I have been unable to gure sight, and soon afterwards the
out any reason in the 33 years Countess called at his studio to
since the hand was played.
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ask to have her portrait palested. couple Two months later the were married and had a very happy and comfortable ille. Knighted in 1822, Raeburn. Was appointed the king's "limner and painter in Scotland", It was a qualit hondür which come too late for him to enjoo, as he died the following year,
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A beautiful woman
Aindan tarve spades. This bid | brought great happiness had -shows the nog and interest in a
'TODAY'S QUESTION Pariber continues with a blå of tares nostrump, What do you do now?..
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stability to Thomas borough, who wis born In Sub- bury, Buffolk, hi 1727; His first portrait, drawn when a boy, had in unmispeeting altter. Ho ro bordod a striking Ukemons' of a man about, to rob 'a trro in art (pretised,
POCKET CARTOON by USBERT LANCASTER
"Hends we go to Notting Hui, tails' we go, to the, pictures."
The secret
I put the old question-what
is the secret of your muccéss? But
I added: "Did you ever think
about it on your way up?”.
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He leaned back from his big, Udy desk (two files, a blotting- Dad, folder on American anti-trust laws and a sample tin of sails). Ho looked out to the roof garden and said: "I never analysed what I wanted. Σ never made a target for myself." It upret one maxim which I might have passed on for young men to cherish.
Ho recollectod: "When I was a lad I got a job as a temporary civil servant because I thought It would give me an oppor. tunity to play cricket in my spare time. I wanted to become a professional cricketer.!!
Kly, dream of Tazeli's great century. af Lord's never cans to Brything. For men came back from the First World War, to their Civil Service Jobs and young Larell was out of a job.
Luck? Yes
Looking back again over th path to the top..first real Joh as a ledger clerk. (“I spent molt På my spare time training myse
It is one of Larell's strong sella bellefs that if a - product widely in one stea it can be sold
jotted down some sales Aguca reckon that the profit_must alone is not a key to success.") on his pad to get a rough idea have been near the £500,000 I don't want fame, he told me. of how many bottles of the mark. Even if I'm wrong I can But he tasles-and creates— drink would sell in the national see how Henry George Lazeli success all the game. He a market, based on the Newcastle feels happy over the proats his eager to tell the world, not of saics.
group has made in nearly 20 himself, but of his goods, Heta gure that raised years from "chicken-foed."
His ambition--right at this
his eyebrows, His next move Constantly he tries to find moment—is to get a boft drink, way to go to Newcastle and meet young men
for his different
the man who was telling the companies, drink. Would he sell ou17 Yes, With good Heutenants working he would. That was in 1930, under him he, is able to con- Lazell, the giant with his eyes centrate on advertising (which today on another soft drink fascinates him), and the task
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