Youth Devouring Apparel he produced his best known

he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 20

also known as Typhoid Mary

Even as a child I was reserved and apprehensive

18 x 24 inches

Youth Devouring Apparel he produced his best known6 x 14 inches 2012 Oil on Linen Framed The subjects stand as compromised martyrs, moments frozen in time. Pacifists, they were once observers and are now the eternally observed. Stolid, cold marble with fixed emotion, they bear the changing seasons and cycles of time uncelebrated, unobtrusive but exposed. They are effigies from a lost age, relics of a classical system and now they stand as monuments to modern decay. These are our gods, our flawed