Mr. BARON HUDDLESTON: "You will have to prove that it is a Titian."

Mr. BOWEN: "I shall be able to do that."

Mr. BARON HUDDLESTON: "That can only be by repute. I do not want
to raise a laugh, but there is a well-known case of 'an undoubted'
Titian being purchased with a view to enabling students and others to
find out how to produce his wonderful colours. With that object the
picture was rubbed down, and they found a red surface, beneath which
they thought was the secret, but on continuing the rubbing they
discovered a full length portrait of George III. in uniform!"

The witness was then asked to look at the picture, and he said: "It is
a portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti, and I believe it is a real Titian.
It shows finish. It is a very perfect sample of the highest finish of
ancient art.[17] The flesh is perfect, the modelling of the face is
round and good. That is an 'arrangement in flesh and blood!'"

[Note 17: ... "I feel entitled to point out that the
picture by Titian, produced in the case of Whistler _v._
Ruskin, is an early specimen of that master, and does
not represent adequately the style and qualities which
have obtained for him his great reputation--one obvious
point of difference between this and his more mature
work being the far greater amount of finish--I do not
say completeness--exhibited in it ... and as the picture
was brought forward with a view to inform the jury as to
the nature of the work of the greatest painter, and more
especially as to the high finish introduced in it, it is
evident that it was calculated to produce an erroneous
impression on their minds, if indeed any one present at
the inquiry can hold that those gentlemen were in any
way fitted to understand the issues raised therein.--I
am, Sir, your obedient servant,

A. MOORE.

"Nov. 28."
Extract of a letter to the Editor of the _Echo_.]

The witness having pointed out the excellences of that portrait, said:
"I think Mr. Whistler had great powers at first, which he has not
since justified. He has evaded the difficulties of his art, because
the difficulty of an artist increases every day of his professional
life."

Cross-examined: "Wh