| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Jozef Israels, Amsterdam, thanking for letter and payment, sorry that the frame was damaged, 'I pray you to suspend your whole and full idea of the picture till it is all arranged and well placed … I hope too that the paper of your room is not too fine or bright', which does not do justice to a Rembrandtesque interior scene, the subject is not as appealing as in the painting bought by White, but Macdonald wanted an interior, difficulty in matching the portrait of a 'fleshy' forty-year-old friend of his with that of his new teenage wife, 25 July 1868 |