System Number: 06070
Date: 14 July 1891
Author: George Frederick Watts[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W67
Document Type: ALS
LITTLE HOLLAND HOUSE,
KENSINGTON. W.
July 14th 1891
My dear Mr Whistler
I don't suppose you will care a pin for my opinion but I cannot help writing to say how great I think your picture of your mother[2] is, a real poem of the highest order, a most serene harmony, the impression of it remains with me like a strain of sweet & solemn music
G. F. Watts
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Envelope:
to be forwarded
James McNeil [sic] Whistler EqrSociety of Portrait Painters
Royal Institute of Painters in Water colours
Piccadilly
W
[stamp:] POSTAGE AND INLAND REVENUE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON. W / 12 / JY 15 / 91 / 6
[verso, a sketch of a silver cup[3]]
Notes:
1. George Frederick Watts
George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), painter and sculptor [more].
2. mother
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101). JW's reply to this hearfelt praise is #06071 and #10074. The painting had been bought by the French Government for the Musée du Luxembourg.