Bubbles (painting) prospect of his work and his grandson being the subject of commercial exploitation. However, when he was shown the proofs of the proposed advertisements he grew to appreciate the idea, which portrayed the soap as if the child had used it to make the bubbles. Following the success of this advertisement Millais was attacked in print by the novelist Marie Corelli who accused him in her novel "The Sorrows of Satan" of prostituting his talent to sell soap. Millais wrote to her pointing out that he had sold the copyright of the painting and so was unable to stop the
Bernard Pears pear, but contrary to what some believe, there is no William Pear in our lineage." In 1952, together with his son Clive Pears, he founded the William Pears Group. Bernard Pears Bernard Pears was an Austrian-born British businessman, and the founder of the William Pears Group, one of Britain's largest property companies. He was born Bernard Schleicher, and emigrated from Austria to Hackney, London, and changed his surname to Pears. The change of surname took place on 8 November 1939, and he gave his address as 180 Fore Street, Edmonton, London. Pears started a greengrocer business in north London, which