A Victorian Eye, Jermyn Street Theatre
"Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye," Cézanne once said of the Impressionist painter. Unlike Cézanne, British artist William Blake Richmond, named by his artist father after the elder Richmond's visionary mentor William Blake, had no truck with Monet's eye. Nor indeed Cézanne's or the whole cabal of French avant-gardists. What are the French good for, rails Richmond in Rory Fellowes's A Victorian Eye, e…