15 May 2009
“The Ayes Have It.”
Amongst the pictures at the late competing exhibition in Westminster Hall, there was one, the subject of which was King Henry receiving the news of the loss of his son, Prince William, by shipwreck. The artist, intending that the king should express the horror he felt by his eyes, pictured them as if they were starting out of his head. A lady remarked, “If the prizes were awarded by vote, this picture would certainly gain the first prize; for the ‘eyes’ would have it.”
