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Updated: May 26, 2025
I had always thought Jack Gisburn rather a cheap genius though a good fellow enough so it was no great surprise to me to hear that, in the height of his glory, he had dropped his painting, married a rich widow, and established himself in a villa on the Riviera. "The height of his glory" that was what the women called it. I can hear Mrs.
Gisburn, presenting a neutral surface to work on forming, as it were, so inevitably the background of her own picture had lent herself in an unusual degree to the display of this false virtuosity.
Gisburn, presenting a neutral surface to work on forming, as it were, so inevitably the background of her own picture had lent herself in an unusual degree to the display of this false virtuosity.
Of course, if she had not dragged him down, she had equally, as Miss Croft contended, failed to "lift him up" she had not led him back to the easel. To put the brush into his hand again what a vocation for a wife! But Mrs. Gisburn appeared to have disdained it and I felt it might be interesting to find out why.
Had not the exquisite Hermia Croft, at the last Grafton Gallery show, stopped me before Gisburn's "Moon-dancers" to say, with tears in her eyes: "We shall not look upon its like again"? Well! even through the prism of Hermia's tears I felt able to face the fact with equanimity. Poor Jack Gisburn! The women had made him it was fitting that they should mourn him.
It was not till three years later that, in the course of a few weeks' idling on the Riviera, it suddenly occurred to me to wonder why Gisburn had given up his painting. On reflection, it really was a tempting problem. To accuse his wife would have been too easy his fair sitters had been denied the solace of saying that Mrs. Gisburn had "dragged him down." For Mrs.
Gisburn drew back the window-curtains, moved aside a jardiniere full of pink azaleas, pushed an arm-chair away, and said: "If you stand here you can just manage to see it. I had it over the mantel-piece, but he wouldn't let it stay." Yes I could just manage to see it the first portrait of Jack's I had ever had to strain my eyes over!
Gisburn as such had not existed till nearly a year after Jack's resolve had been taken. It might be that he had married her since he liked his ease because he didn't want to go on painting; but it would have been hard to prove that he had given up his painting because he had married her.
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