, whose prosperity offended them, and whose dandified
manners, free-and-easy ways, and evident influence over the younger scholars
gave umbrage to these elderly apprentices. Clive at first returned Mr. Chivers
war for war, controlment for controlment; but when he found Chivers was the son
of a helpless widow - that he maintained her by his lithographic vignettes for
the music-sellers, and by the scanty remuneration of some lessons which he gave
at a school at Highgate - when Clive saw, or fancied he saw, the lonely senior
eyeing with hungry eyes the luncheons of cheese and bread, and sweetstuff, which
the young lads of the studio enjoyed, I promise you Mr. 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 sed
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. Before Clive and his friend J.J. came to Gandish's,
the Barkerites were having the best of that constant match, which the two
academies were playing. Fred Bayham, who knew every coffee-house in town, and
whose initials were scored on a thousand tavern doors, was for a while a
constant visitor at Lundy's, played pool with the young men, and did not disdain
to dip his beard into their porter-pots when invited to partake of their drink;
treated them handsomely when he was in cash himself; and was an honorary member
of Barker's Academy. Nay, when the guardsman was not forthcoming, who was
standing for one of Barker's heroic pictures, Bayham bared his immense arms and
brawny shoulders,