Art's Last Bow

  Henry John Yeend King (1855 - 1924) was a British painter. He mostly captured images of rustic genre scenes set in an idealized past.   The title of this painting is taken from the first line of the poem “ A Visit from St. Nicholas ” by Clement Clarke Moore, but it doesn’t illustrate the poem. It shows a small choir of little boys singing carols in front of a large house. There are lights in the windows, and you can see the silhouettes of two figures standing in the doorway and listening to the music.