Quote from : Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others Book

They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model")