St. Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1888
That is one wonderful painting. It has been one of my favorites for many years.
You might be interested to know that +Nicholas at the Great Council at Nicea, attempted to get the heresiarch Arius to repudiate his heresies against Christ and the Most Holy Theotokos through the use of patient reasoning. He was unsuccessful and in his frustration, crossed the hall to where Arius was sitting and slugged him! The Holy Fathers of the Council immediately stripped him of his episcopal rank and threw him out of the Council. That night a number of the Holy Fathers had visions of the Theotokos telling them to restore +Nicholas to his position and honor and to condemn Arius, which, of course, is exactly what happened.
When I was little I always loved it when one of my grandparents told that story about +Nicholas!