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Hard is the life of a portraitist. Bitterly did British sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman realize this last week. Year ago he won a competition to design an equestrian memorial statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...
...Douglas Haig, Field Marshal, and no nonsense. This did not look like Lord Haig, it did not look like his horse. To the expert eyes of letters-to-the-Times writers, it did not look like a horse at all. Loudest objector was Lady Haig who found that Sculptor Hardiman had made her husband "much...
Meekly Sculptor Hardiman made another model. Abundantly supplied with photographs from amateur critics, he gave the Field Marshal a slouching seat and set him on a nervous, long-necked racer. This second model was passed by the Office of Works, last week drew a second storm of protest from British horsemen...
...past three years has been carrying on a bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week he dropped his feud with Col. Goldschmidt long enough to blast the Hardiman horse as a "fiddle-headed, peacocky, weak-necked, flat-sided, long-backed, straight-shouldered, herring-gutted useless beast...
While there could be no doubt whatever that the second Hardiman horse was a very bad horse, art critics regarded the controversy last week as part of the bitterness that seems always to follow equestrian sculpture. When the late great "'Marse Henry" Watterson, Confederate scout, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, first saw St. Gaudens' equestrian statue of General Sherman being led by an angel, he said: "Just like the - - to make the lady walk...