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28 February 1882 — 3 Savile Row | |
Tuesday. 28th February [1882]. Henry went off to the Meeting for the proposed musical college at wh the P. of Wales was to preside. Gertie Seymer came to say she would fetch me tomorrow to drive with her. Mrs Burr called & sat some time chatting. Cecil Alderson came to lunch having come up to consult people abt his son going to settle at Manitoba. Henry & I drove out after lunch & went to Little Holland House to call on Watts. We found him alone—sitting by his studio fire very melancholy & with a bad cold. Henry said all he could to cheer him, how much his pictures exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery had surprised & delighted people—& how in Henry’s opinion he was far above all artists of the present day. Watts said that he had aimed for more than that & his life was wasted if he could not deserve greater praise than that. Henry told him that in his opinion he might be classed with some of the old Masters & that his portrait of himself belonging to Mr Beamont the occulist was not far below Titian. After sitting with him some time he showed us what he had in his studio—an unfinished portrait of Manning—a very pretty picture of a little girl in profile in a red dress & hat. He said that when he was at the Aquarium he saw a child sitting in such a pretty attitude that he begged her to come & sit to him wh she did. It is a simple picture & prettier than Millais first sermon—tho’ the idea is the same. He expressed a desire to do a portrait of Henry much to my delight. Mrs Willie Hanson came to tea—also Lady Eastlake & Miss Lewis & Alice Duff Gordon. We had Sir Arthur Otway, Mr Robert Bourke, Susan Hambro & Monty to dinner. I had such a headache that I could not enjoy my evening & went to bed as soon as Susan & Mr Bourke had gone leaving Henry & Sir Arthur talking– Henry arranged with him that he shd write to Lord Granville & Sir Arthur to Sir C. Dilke about their testament of Henry & ask them to decide something. | |
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