19 September

Born in 1806—William Dyce, Scottish painter

Above: King Joash Shooting the Arrow of Deliverance, 1844

Also, born in 1911, British novelist, playwright, and poet, William Golding.

The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.

Previously on September 19, Frank Eugene and Daniel Lanois.