That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 04, 2021

“You want to go back home? The blue pill is beginning to kick in.”

This is the ‘before’ picture for yesterday’s painting. Ie before hubby has a massive coronary

The painter’s side job is selling hats. Who are these people again?

Jeez, those hats! Now I know where the Wright brothers got their ideas.

Aunt Bea before she moved to Mayberry!

Eventually they all marry their bodyguards…

WARNING: Never check out cleavage while the picture is being painted. You’ll thank me later.

No, I didn’t grow a beard today. Why do you ask?

By the by, did you see two raccoons around here?

“I just don’t know, Monty, but I don’t feel I can take the Woolley name—particularly when I’m feeling like Q-Tip!”

He thought that being the Duke of Cummerbund sounded pretty cool. Eventually, he realized he had misheard her title when she was first introduced.

The Duchess’s lofty station/ lost a good bit of elevation/ when, in less than a week/ of living with Zeke/ she succumbed to severe rustication.

The Duchess is in despair!/ It’s the Duke’s fearsome facial hair/ the stuff on his jaw/ is rubbing her raw/- and you probably don’t wonder where…

Nuthin is as ducal as a bunch of bristles (buccal) in the mor-or-or-nin’..

“Ma’am? I do believe there is some sort of creature setting up house keeping in your hat. “

chuck and maggie havin’ a wild and crazy day at ascot…

“Sir Henry, I don’t care what type of ‘tickler’ you call your beard..I am not amused!”

“Honey, please go into Cumby’s And get me a 6-pack of Sam Adams.

Jane Hathaway becomes Jed’s kept woman.

Eeeehah!

She bears her title with Grace,

Whether in low or a lofty space,

Don’t call her highness,

In spite of her fineness,

That title is out of place

King Edward Vll and his mistress, Mrs. Kepple.

COULD they have had a love-child…who had a love-child…who had a daughter called Camilla…It all comes round, like karma.

huh

Reginald “Shady” Kinkade and Loretta Lightfinger, world-famous human hair and ostrich plume smugglers.

Zeke, tired of carrying Alexandria’s cotton candy, sets it on her hat.

Must be from Texas, where everything is oversized.

No my dear, this is not a reverse mullet.

You said this is how everyone dressed to funerals here.

Pardon me, Ma’am, is that a ten gallon plume?

“Say, didn’t you have a part in “The Wizard of Oz”?"

I wonder how much he got for J.J. on the trade-in.

There is no ‘I’ in Alexandra. Alexandria is a city in Egypt.

“Just cause I don’t shave don’t mean you can use my shave cream to decorate your damn hat!”

The latest direct-to-video: Duchesses Gone Wild.

Portrait of Karol and Malgorzata Lanckoroński: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malczewski-portret_Lanckoro%C5%84skich.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacek-malczewski 

https://mnk.pl/collection/self-portraits-by-jacek-malczewski 

https://books.google.com/books?id=QTUTqE2difgC&pg=PA335#v=onepage&q&f=false 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Jacek_Malczewski/11051393/Jacek_Malczewski.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/jacek.malczewski/3742743 

http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/6-slav_countries01.htm 

http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Malczewski_J_bio.htm 

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-museums/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay-more/article/jacek-malczewski-4292.html?cHash=0f46e78ba7 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate if necessary, and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/01/22?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included 3 of the artist info URLs, 1 of which has been moved).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2635 (February 3, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“BAAAAAAAALLLL-ZAAAAAC!”

“I told you not to go out in that blizzard!”

Apologies your grace. The painter said that we are not what he’s looking for to paint “American gothic”.