Anyone who wants to know what kind of an artist F. S. Cary was can
see his picture of Charles and Mary Lamb in the National Portrait
Gallery. In 1865 Butler sent from London to New Zealand an article
entitled "Lucubratio Ebria," which was published in the Press of
29th July, 1865. It treated machines from a point of view different
from that adopted in "Darwin among the Machines," and was one of the
steps that led to Erewhon and ultimately to Life and Habit. The
article is reproduced in The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912).

Butler also studied art at South Kensington, but by 1867 he had
begun to go to Heatherley's School of Art in Newman Street, where he
continued going for many years. He made a number of friends at
Heatherley's, and among them Miss Eliza Mary Anne Savage. There
also he first met Charles Gogin, who, in 1896, painted the portrait
of Butler which is now in the National Portrait Gallery. He
described himself as an artist in the Post Office Directory, and
between 1868 and 1876 exhibited at the Royal Academy about a dozen
pictures, of which the most important was "Mr. Heatherley's
Holiday," hung on the line in 1874. He left it by his will to his
college friend Jason Smith, whose representatives, after his death,
in 1910, gave it to the nation and it is now in the National Gallery
of British Art. Mr. Heatherley never went away for a holiday; he
once had to go out of town on business and did not return till the
next day; one of the students asked him how he had got on, saying no
doubt he had enjoyed the change and that he must have found it
refreshing to sleep for once out of London.

"No," said Heatherley, "I did not like it. Country air has no
body."