“The Mona Lisa”? Pssshh. “The Rokeby Venus”? Pshaw. We have “The Shadow of Death”, “The Scapegoat” and “Thomson’s Aeolian Harp”. Now that’s what I call art – and all ‘and painted, as one alderman put it to Holman Hunt.

“The Mona Lisa”? Pssshh. “The Rokeby Venus”? Pshaw. We have “The Shadow of Death”, “The Scapegoat” and “Thomson’s Aeolian Harp”. Now that’s what I call art – and all ‘and painted, as one alderman put it to Holman Hunt.