| Description | 'Catalogue and Particulars of Pictures at Kepplestone'
Volume containing 'Remarks and Suggestions Relating to my Collection of Pictures To be read by those who may have the disposal of them'. Includes remarks on pictures and artists, including Edward Armitage, Adolph Artz, Jean Aubert, Samuel Bough, George Boughton, Jules Breton, John Brett, W.P. Burton, Philip H. Calderon, Hugh Cameron, Carrier-Belleuse, James Cassie, George Paul Chalmers, Arthur S. Cope, F.G. Cotman, Eyre Crowe, H.W.B. Davis, Frank Dicksee, William Fettes Douglas, William Etty, Joseph Farquharson, Luke Fildes, Mark Fisher, Birket Foster, W.P Frith, Frederick Goodall, Andrew C. Gow, Peter Graham, Thomas Graham, Tom Gray, E.J. Gregory, George Harvey, Robert Herdman, J.S. Hodgson, Allan J. Hook, Bryan Hook, James C. Hook, J.C. Horsley, Colin Hunter, Josef Israels, Charles Samuel Keene, Sir Frederick Leighton, George D. Leslie, Edwin Long, William McTaggart, John MacWhirter, Henry Stacy Marks, George Du Maurier, J. Everett Millais, A. Mollinger, Philip R. Morris, Alfred P. Newton, W.W. Onless. William Quiller Orchardson, Sir J. Noel Paton, John Pettie, John Phillip, Edward J. Poynter, Val Prinsep, Paul Rajan, Archibald W. Reid, George Reid, Briton Riviere, Linley Sambourne, Marcus Stone, L. Alma Tadema, John Tenniel, Alexander Thiollet; George F. Watts, Henry Tamworth Wells. Comments include price, potential market, personal remarks about artists (many of whom visited him or knew him), criticism of painting and notes of artist's prospects, etc. His comments on a portrait of Millais by George Reid and Millais: 'This was a pleasant & interesting episode. The joint dedication by both artists is gratifying to me. It was done when Mr. Millais visited me in 1880, and was done in two sittings. It was mostly Reid's work, but Millais did some parts, the mouth, part of the brow & eye & a bit of the coat. He was much pleased with it himself, & said it was splendid colour. It is signed & dated by both.' His comments on a self-portrait by Alma Tadema: '£52 … I could not get him to do it for less. It is very like him. … he wrote me "I have already three times begun the thing afresh, and seem unable to satisfy myself."' His comments on a self-portrait by W.W. Onless: 'A good likeness, but not so successful as Barlow's. They say he is jumping to be President someday. We shall see!'. His comments on a self-portrait by Edward J. Paynter: 'Was formerly Art Director at the South Kensington Museum. Not a favourite with his colleagues. His wife aimed at fashionable life.' His comments on a painting by George Reid: 'Portrait of my wife, with background of clematis. As yet it is not a likeness & has not her elegant figure, but he has promised to take it up again. Up to now he had little feeling for looks in a woman - never kissed one in his life - poor devil! He has now got engaged to Miss Best he is close on 41 - she is 43. She is not bonny, but good, and will make a suitable wife.' January 1875 - 1879 |