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I look as if I was having a difficult stool, complained Churchill, and although there was great public outcry against "Lady Churchill's Revenge," it must be admitted there is some truth to the statement. Much later, Sutherland discovered that Lady Churchill had burned the portrait shortly after the former British Prime Minister's death. Churchill despised the work and never allowed it to be displayed. One of the most famous examples of a painting suffering for its art is Graham Sutherland's Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill (1954). He patched the canvas, but never got around to repainting the lost portion. (Degas later asked, How could you expect anyone to stay on bad terms with Manet?) A photograph shows that Degas actually hung the truncated version in his home for a time. One would expect this to lead to all-out war between the painters, both Realists who stayed on the fringes of the Impressionist movement, but the incident eventually blew over. When Degas saw the vandalism, he seized the painting and stormed out of Manet's home. Manet detected "a distortion of his dear Suzanne's features," and cut off her side of the painting in a rage. Posterity has judged the painting much less harshly, however, and Lady at a Tea-Table is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Ĭassatt's mentor Edgar Degas, one of the finest portraitists who ever lived, once painted the scene of Manet Listening to His Wife Play Piano (1868). Riddle's enjoyment of the painting, so the gift was refused and sent back to the artist.Ĭassatt was long at odds with her family, who didn't seem to value her work or think very highly of a woman having a career at all. It is a somewhat dour likeness and the nose in particular was major a stumbling block to Mrs. Riddle, in 1885 as a thank-you for the gift of the tea service displayed in the painting. Most people don't like the way they look in photographs, and it's not surprising that many sitters are known to have been less than satisfied by painted portraits. Rejected Portraits: Kahlo/ The Suicide of Dorothy Hale

Sittings from Hell: Sargent/ Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose