“Mr Tissot makes [the apostles] hook-nosed, sly, foxy, with spit curls on their temples, with hair and beards that have not known the comb, and complexions that are strange to water. But that is ...

James Tissot (1836-1902) ... In a superb self-portrait, painted in 1865, a handsome young man with an intelligent face, dark hair and a shaggy moustache leans against his hand, ...