| Description | Letter dated 26 April 1869 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., Hotel d'Isly, Rue Jacob 29, Paris, regarding visit with Pinchard to Aubert's studio, 'a very jolly little fellow … Hamm and Aubert are the leaders of the modern classical school', comments on their improvements in terms of colour, description of a 'hazy, dreamy looking picture all painted in delicate gradations of half tint' of a woman, with sketch, description of another picture of two women with a swan that might please Macdonald, Reid's negotiations to cut out the middlemen for him to buy one of Aubert's works. |