| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from W.Q. Orchardson, Arts Club, Hanover Square, London, thanking him for the offer of haddock, which he has not had for fifteen years and will enjoy, just returned from Westgate and settling down to work again, one canvas is eight feet long, and shows Napoleon on board the 'Belerophon', glad to hear that Macdonald is to visit the Royal Academy exhibition in the spring, 'you will please more than yourself by coming', thanks for compliments on picture, 8 December 1879 |