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Call Number:
MSS 22
Title(s):
Miss Horner letter to Richard Redgrave; Richard Redgrave to Miss Horner
Date:
1840[?] December 1
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 63
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Miss Horner requests Redgrave meet her at the National Gallery so that he may "give her a single lesson in watercolour." She writes that she has "copied the picture of Pope Julius [Raphael?] there and would like to show it to Mr Redgrave if he would be so good as to give his advice about it." She would like Redgrave to "recommend one or two pictures for her to choose to copy." She adds "perhaps on Saturday Mr Redgrave [... may] give her a few directions in the colouring." Redgrave has replied on the same letter that he will be able to meet Miss Horner on Saturday. He concedes that the Pope Julius is a difficult painting to copy and that she should have tried just the head, not the entire picture. Redgrave continues his recommendations in small notes in the blank spaces on the front of the letter with suggestions for other works to copy (including Murillo, Rubens) and further advice.
Additional Notes:
Addressed from: 2 Bradford Place
Physical Description:
1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 11.5 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Artists
Etchers
Painters
Painting
Women painters
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863
Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865
Etching Club (London, England)
Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855
Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897
Goodall, Edward A.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894
Holl, Francis, 1815-1884
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880
Linnell, William
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896
O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880
Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888
Richmond, George, 1809-1896
Roberts, David, 1796-1864
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890
Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
Stanfield, George Clarkson
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
Finding Aid Title:
Letters to Richard Redgrave
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450013
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450013?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1