It is nice to see John Waterhouse back in the news, though not quite in the way you would expect. Waterhouse was once one of Britain’s most famous and well-regarded artists, and his pictures are still famous, subjects of endless reproductions, even if he has been dead for these last 101 years. His Wikipedia article provides one with a full catalogue of his pictures, many of which will be immediately recognisable. Now, as the Guardian reports, the Manchester Art Gallery has removed one of his most well-known works, in order to prompt some sort of debate about the way female flesh is depicted in art. The report says: