| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from James Nasmyth, Hammerfield, Penshurst, Kent, delighted that Macdonald is pleased with the painting and will add it to 'your most interesting Valhalla!', he had tried to do a portrait of his father years ago for his wife, who had admired his father as 'an artist of almost universal capability', that first attempt is on loan to the Exhibition of Scottish Artists in Edinburgh at present, the one for Macdonald is 'vastly superior', it is a better likeness, and conveys a better impression of his 'genial manner', thanks for Macdonald's letter, 7 July 1884 |