| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from William McTaggart, 4, Melville Terrace, Edinburgh, just returned from the Royal Academy exhibition, two out of his three pictures are well hung, but 'Fortune of War' is badly hung, the exhibition is very mixed, comments on Millais (including criticism of his landscapes), Watts, Hook, Pettie, Orchardson, Calderon and Leslie, 'The St. John's Wood Artists or clique are all going to the bad', further comments on Peter Graham, C.E. Johnson, Tom Graham, and Frith, enjoyed the Academy's whitebait dinner at Greenwich, Marks sang comic songs, very poor International exhibition, thanks for remarks on his picture which he will make as good as he can, 13 May 1872 |