Picasso's Blue Period was done in hot, bright hues. The painting considered the first of his Blue Period, "Casagemas in His Coffin", was completed later in 1901 when Picasso was sinking into a major depression. Picasso, normally an outgoing socializer, withdrew from his friends. Picasso's bout of depression was to last several years. Picasso's career had been promising before 1901 and early in that year he was making "a splash" in Paris. However, as he moved towards subject matter such as society's poor and outcast, and accented this with a cool, anguished mood with blue hues, the critics and the public turned away
Charles Shirreff (painter) portrait than any miniature painter she had sat to. During that period, he had clients for portraits in common with two other deaf miniaturists in Bath, Sampson Towgood Roch and Richard Crosse. In 1795, he renewed his application to go to India, and left England in the "Lord Hawkesbury", which reached Madras in January 1797. He painted in Madras for some years before moving to Calcutta, where he worked on his "Illustrations of Signs". In 1807, he announced it was nearly completed and would be available to subscribers as soon as possible. This work has never been traced and is