That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 28, 2018

When Whistler’s mother refused to pay him, he started to take outside work to make ends meet.

He such a dull guy that when he was at a party the hosts would tell the guests to “just toss your jackets on Joseph”.

Funny you would say that. The subject of the is Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and mathematician. His marriage to Jane Welsh was so unhappy that the English writer Samuel Butler said:

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four.

This was the first attempt with Whistler’s mother, but her no-good boyfriend portrait-bombed it.

Crime flourished in Gotham, as Bruce Wayne’s new Xanax addiction meant that the bat signal behind him went unnoticed.

Solo musical chairs.

“Can we get this speed dating thing over with?”

Whistler to prospective clients: “Shadows? I can’t do ‘em. Background? Nah—there’s something on the wall, but who can say what it is? But give me a black overcoat and trousers, and I am your man!”

Faint Batman theme.

… and the S.O.B. cut the rockers off!

He does look like a Mitch.

Cool codpiece!

" I should have never said to that guy staring at me to ‘make a picture it will last longer’."

Go figure – she went tot he bathroom 2 hours ago to powder her nose.

The standin carnival cut out of Whistler’s mother was a hit at the State Fair.

George Clooney, between takes, as Jack the Ripper in the next Nespresso commercial.

Awesome bit of trivia!

Whistler’s mother before she quit her gig as the bearded lady at Barnum’s.

Otherwise known as “Portrait In Dim (REALLY DIM) Light”.

Whistler’s father…

I hate what wood stove smoke does to the wall paper and carpet.

Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_003.jpg 

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

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/whistler_james_mcneill.html 

https://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/whistler-bio.htm 

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp04794/james-abbott-mcneill-whistler 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/whistler/whistler_bio.htm 

http://www.all-art.org/history436.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/james-mcneill-whistler 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/w/whistler/biograph.html 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/james-abbott-mcneill-whistler/ 

https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/whistler/ 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/652 

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-whistler-james-abbott-mcneill.htm 

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/whet/hd_whet.htm 

http://hoocher.com/James_Mc_Neill_Whistler/James_Mc_Neill_Whistler.htm 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/02/23?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included 2 of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2089 (November 27, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Tom was confidant that this is where the exchange department had asked him to wait for his representative.

Robert De Niro resting between takes of Whistler’s biographic movie….

His appointment had been for 9 am, but it was 6 pm and the receptionist had gone home without leaving the light on. He was beginning to get discouraged.

Nonsense. This is the other chair, the one behind mom’s chair.

Thomas “Mr. Sunshine” Carlyle, in his Summer finery.

He’s covered his enormous passion well! The hat was a nice touch!

Thomas didn’t have a beard when his wife had started to get ready for the party.

Now that is priceless!

lee, having sex with a midget

lee, having sex with a midget with a hat on.

Mitch locked her in the bathroom so he could be in the portrait.

“What can ‘brown’ do for you?”

Move your meat, lose your seat.