the portrait^✦︎

Also portrait, spot of art

Gwladys Pendlebury's portrait of Bertie, which Jeeves thinks gives him a hungry look.

Connections

dealings

• Alexander Slingsby buys 1
• Gwladys Pendlebury creates 1
• Jeeves dislikes 1
• the soup poster^✦︎ reproduces 1

Scenes it is in

1. Jeeves admits disliking the portrait's hungry look and reports that Gwladys ran over Lucius Pim outside, who now lies in Bertie's spare bedroom with a broken leg.Chapter 6, the sitting-room, as portrait
2. Bertie tells Jeeves to back up Pim's story and decides to spend the next day in Brighton so Gwladys won't compare him with the interesting invalid.Chapter 6, the sitting-room, as portrait

Talked about, but not there

1. Bertie tells Aunt Dahlia he cannot come on her yacht cruise because he loves Gwladys Pendlebury, and she bets him Jeeves will stop the match, get rid of the portrait and have him aboard the yacht.Chapter 6, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as portrait
2. Returning from Paris, Bertie sees his portrait on a huge Slingsby's Superb Soups poster, gazing greedily at a plate of soup.Chapter 6, Sloane Square, as portrait
3. Jeeves explains he bought off Slingsby's lawsuit with the portrait, that Gwladys is engaged to Pim, and that he has booked Bertie on Aunt Dahlia's postponed cruise.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat, as portrait