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(born 1820 or 1821, Solicitor & Collector, of Larchfield, Darlington), and 1 autograph envelope, with many insights into the values of a fine young artist, his growing portrait practice, (including Charles Darwin's, 1875), good and bad hanging at the R.A., many comments on older painters including Holman Hunt and what his own contemporaries are doing, leisure snatched in a busy life, and the effect of London fog, with much gratitude for Mewburn's continuous support and introductions to his friends in the North, often in racy language, "I am sorry the portraits seem to them cross looking but all my portraits are more or less so. I cannot do the smile fearing a smirk. I am furious at their hanging my Chemist above the line and that odious Mayor of Newcastle on the line. I was delighted to receive your kind congratulations" (on being elected A.R.A.), with a Checklist of extracts, 146 sides 8vo, the envelope from Utrecht, 1st October 1880, the letters nearly all from 43 Bloomsbury Square, London, 1872-1875, 1877 & first 4 sides only present of 2 letters, some cross-writing (easily read), some a trifle dusty but generally in good condition CHECKLIST 1. 20th November 1872. 43 Bloomsbury Square, London. Thanking Mewburn "for again interesting yourself so kindly on my behalf" and discussing Mewburn's suggestion of painting Mr Barmingham of Darlington, once he has got further for the next Academy submission in April, and of painting Edmund Backhouse, (1824-1906, Banker & M.P. for Darlington), as a companion to Macbeth's portrait, extolling the virtues of 50" x 40" against "full-length. with our confounded modern costume" at a much higher price. 7 sides 8vo. 2. 1st December 1872. Expressing his regret at the "alarming attack of illness" of Mrs Mewburn, (Mewburn's mother Elizabeth), he yet hopes he "may be able to do something that would afford you pleasure" and will be delighted to paint Mr Backhouse. 4 sides 8vo. 3. 14th December 1872. Thanking him for the photograph of Mewburn's father (Francis, Promoter and Solicitor, 1819-1828, of the Stockton & Darlington Railway), but explaining in great detail why a posthumous portrait would be unsatisfactory, "the colour, the freshness and vigour of each touch and all the little accidents which working from nature enable me to get. can never be got from a photograph", asking in a P.S. "May I keep the Carte of your father? . It is so full of strong character". 7 sides 8vo. 4. 4th April 1873. His picture "was not finished enough to send in. a succession of infernal fogs. clean knocked me out. I shall make a very much finer thing of it", but it was "deuced hard lines", he will "turn it to the wall" and have a week "down to the coast and through the New Forest", he had a Private View of John Phillips' pictures - by Jingo for. strength of colour they lick all modern work out and out". and praising 'old Marks' pictures" in similar language. 6 sides 8vo. 5. 30th April 1873. "You will be glad to hear I am well hung at the R.A. - three in No. 1 and one on the line in No. 2", he talks enthusiastically of their placing and of members' compliments, "I tell you all this unhesitatingly", Mewburn's "kind interest. makes me feel sure you will be 'joyous in my joy'", he is giving his large picture 'Love & Duty' a rest. 4 sides 8vo. 6. 6th May 1873. "That notice in Saturdays Times was. a jolly good lift.- for what Tom Taylor writes must influence thousands", talking of the Macbeth family's submissions, "This R.A. business is a terrible lottery", he regrets "the unpleasantness between yourself and Marks", to see Haddon Hall one day "is one of my dreams", he describes the visit of Jozef Israëls (1824-1911), "I started him with palette and brushes and in an instant he was off. he is about the size of a tin-tack and somewhat of a similar shape. he bangs away like a blacksmith. though a severe doctor his suggestions were most valuable". 8 sides 8vo. 7. 20th June 1873. Thanking him "more in thought with all my heart th. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 54691
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