It means beggary.

Your life depends upon people who know nothing of your art and care nothing for you.

A house-dog lives better, and the very sensitiveness that stimulates an artist to work keeps him alive to suffering.'" Another artist describes the conditions in 1841 in the following words:-- "In the spring of 18411 was searching for a studio in which to set up my easel.

My 'house-hunting' ended at the New York University, where I found what I wanted in one of the turrets of that stately edifice.

When I had fixed my choice, the janitor, who accompanied me in my examination of the rooms, threw open a door on the opposite side of the hall and invited me to enter.