Art critic Brian Sewell dead. Was he really a 'dire mix of sexual and class hypocrisy, intellectual posturing and artistic prejudice'...?

He once gave Leeds and Yorkshire a severe critical bashing, and what did we do in return.

We invited him up for tea, which he accepted with good grace, and thoroughly enjoyed his visit lol.

He was a love, and true to his viewpoint, especially on the Arts of which he was passionate.

He will be sadly missed, for the breath of fresh air, which he brought to the pretentious world of the Arts.

I don't think he was a hypocrite about sex?

Nor Class, one of the reasons he had his dislike of Yorkshire was, we were even more blunt about being stuck up, we out did him on being outspoken over Class and manners lol.

I enjoyed Brian Sewell's travelogues to places of artistic merit - he was very knowledgeable and interesting.

He was a revolting old poof, and the fact that the people he described as 'oiks' generally were, cannot change that. He was 'rigorously interrogated' by ex-military policemen loaned to the Special Branch, over his links with Anthony Blunt. He confounded them however, by clearly enjoying the experience of being beaten black and blue then thrown naked into a cold urine-filled cell. He was a great friend of the Queen mother, as were many of his colleagues.

He may well have been but above all he was an entertainer who loved the public and loved the public loving or hating him. He gave us all some really good laughs. His insults of Banksie were spot on. And, he was brilliant talking about the Renaissance and the Baroque eras. I will miss the guy and I am working-class and in the north that he hated!

Wasn't he a character on Fonejacker?

an intelligent, vocal and clever man who will be missed by anyone with more

than half a brain cell that is not permanently on safari.

dead

Do not speak unkindly of the dead.

He did his thing,and made a good living.

Nah...he was great !!