Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog "the atmosphere of schoolboy smut and practical jokes and poetry is evoked with lingering accuracy but with nothing more". Critic Jacob Korg later commented that "taken as a group, [the stories] seem to trace the child's emergence from his domain of imagination and secret pleasures into an adult world where he observes suffering, pathos, and dignity". The book has been described as showing Thomas' "waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display". Apart from "Under Milk Wood", the book is "probably the most famous Dylan Thomas book published during his lifetime... certainly the most loved
Portrait of a Young Man (Bellini, Royal Collection) bought Smith's collection. In 2018 it hung in the King's Closet of Windsor Castle.. The sitter's robe is that of a 'cittadino', the rank in Venetian society between that of patrician. His identity is unknown, although a theory arose in the 1940s that he was the humanist Pietro Bembo - Vasari records Bellini painting a lost portrait of Bembo's mistress, whilst Bellini's biographer Carlo Ridolfi mentions a portrait of Bembo in a list of his works, although this is the only documentary mention of any such work. Bembo would be thirty-five at the time the painting was produced but, although