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Others still consider Monticelli a minor figure in 19th century painting, a painter's painter, and some express their disregard in a colourful manner.

In a statement published in 2005 in The Guardian, Sir Timothy Clifford, director general of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, even chose Monticelli's A Garden Fete as the worst painting in Britain, and commented, " We have been bequested eight paintings by Monticelli, each one more hideous than the last.

In my 21 years here, none has been hung because I think Monticelli produces screamingly awful art.

I call this one a Fete Worse Than Death.