The things we do!

Clive's wrath against Chivers was speedily turned into compassion and
kindness, and he sought, and no doubt found, means of feeding Chivers
without offending his testy independence.
Nigh to Gandish's was, and perhaps is, another establishment for teaching
the art of design--Barker's, which had the additional dignity of a life
academy and costume; frequented by a class of students more advanced than
those of Gandish's. Between these and the Barkerites there was a constant
rivalry and emulation, in and out of doors. Gandish sent more pupils to
the Royal Academy; Gandish had brought up three medallists; and the last
R.A. student sent to Rome was a Gandishite. Barker, on the contrary,
scorned and loathed Trafalgar Square, and laughed at its art. Barker
exhibited in Pall Mall and Suffolk Street: he laughed at old Gandish and
his pictures, made mincemeat of his "Angli and Angeli," and tore "King
Alfred" and his muffins to pieces. The young men of the respective
schools used to meet at Lundy's coffee-house and billiard-room, and smoke
there, and do battle.


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