That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 04, 2012

He’s fainting with excitement!

The Indian is wondering why Justin Bieber would make a strong man faint.

That scene would be freakishly accurate if he was tweenaged girl.

I’m not sure anyone can really know an artist as enigmatically complex as young Mr. Bieber. I suppose if I just wrote him off as a vapid money grabbing pretty boy singer, I’d just seem envious.

Sorry … you just crossed over from funny to silly mode Mr. Melcher.

???who?

So…..which friend does he take?

Just once, back in my teens, I was convinced to pretend to faint with some girlfriends- then I told them how stupid it was (especially as it was some singer I didn’t care about). I guess I’m not surprized I had few girlfriends in school.

Now they just have to wait 224 years for Justin Bieber to be born.

Enlargement available from here. Painting info (who/what/when/where) also discussed here. Painting discussed here. If you’ve access to JSTOR — I don’t, you can read more about this detail of the painting here, or if you want to visit a library or purchase them, this recommends books to read about this detail of the painting. This, this, and this (oh, there are more) show the painting with completely different coloration. So far, only work by this artist to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.Probably too many details.

“are we there yet?”

Probably was originally spelled Biber – if so music may run in the family – http://www.bluntinstrument.org.uk/biber/ (I know, how have the mighty fallen.)

Shouldn’t he be more excited for a band more his age, like the Rolling Stones?

This is really getting off topic (I hope I’m not banned for it).When I saw the @underwriter Biber comment, I deleted mine (which I have no doubt misused the word umlaut), I guess while you were writing this.I haven’t a clue why you think I should know German. I use Google Translated German Wikipedia webpages sometimes because they offer more information than the English versions.Although both my parents spoke German, they only did when they wanted to keep what they were saying from my sister and me. She’s 3 years older, and had already begun training as an R.N. when the local high school finally (at least one hometown church had always had a German-only service for maybe 100 years before) offered German as a foreign language in the fall of 1963, my senior year, and as siblings will, I kidded her that finally I’d get to know what they were saying.But it turned out the joke was on me, because my parents spoke a dialect that wasn’t being taught. So whatever I was taught, it was almost 50 years ago, and hasn’t been used (I’ve been around the world, but never to Germany) in the interim. It never crossed my mind, consciously at least, that bieber was German for beaver.

I always thought the guy on the right had awesome hair.

all of french canada wish he didn’t win the battle. many of the british officers and generals during the 1700-1820s were incompetent. see cornwallis, burgoyne.

I did not understand that Mabrndt’s name had any meaning (but I only understand English and Latin based languages (fluent self taught in Spanish after studying French in HS and Latin in college. Although my mother’s heritage was English and dad’s was Welsh/Scottish/Irish, I married a Cuban and helped to bring his parents and siblings to the US (legally)!! I enjoy seeing films with subtitles and as my Spanish is sufficient, I enjoy reading Garcia Marquez because his novels are exceptional. My pretend personna (in SCA) is a lady at the court of HR Emperor Frederich II, so I am studying the history surrounding that time with as much detail as possible. I would like to make that lady of the court as complete a person as possible. Her father was a goldsmith for the Emperor, so the family had more privledges than other tradesfolk, and I have done the sorts of metalwork in my hobbies before ever hearing of the SCA groups.

Here is another work by this artist.