Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903, John Callcott Horsley letter to Richard Redgrave, 1875 July 11
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
- Title(s):
- John Callcott Horsley letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1875 July 11
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 65
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- 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:
- “Private. My Dear Redgrave, Wife and I left town on Friday to pay a couple of visits in ‘Bucks’ or I should have called on you & Cope – We return tomorrow morning but I may not see you before the meeting in the evening, upon the result of which so much depends in the opinion of man[?] […] in connection with ‘the honour and glory’ of the R.A.—Cope, I hope and believe, means to vote for my resolution[?], but I fear you do not – Now I do not for a moment expect that you will be much influenced by any opinion of mine, but I trust for the sake of the Academy & English Art that you will hesitate before you back up the views of our glib French friend Calderon & Messrs Leighton & Co.! – Have you ever heard the former dilate upon Wilkie, whose pictures he considers ‘rubbish’ & those of Linnell ‘utter rot’? Or of the sneering talk of Leighton & his […] respecting such men as Leslie & John Phillip? – If you had I can but think that you would join with me in leaving in the hands of the Academicians (the majority of whom are innocent of the above opinions) a process which most certainly could be used as a check upon an influence which in my humble opinion is so perniciously affecting the English School, I […] agree with Cope as to the chief means of counteracting this influence, at the same time it surely must be admitted that the R.A. elections have much weight in the scale & that there is some virtue in judgment matured by life & experience! I will not bestow my testimonials any further upon you though I am much tempted to do so – Let Cope see this note & then tear it up as what I have said of our colleagues is only meant for you private ears – with our united kind regards to Mrs Redgrave and yourself & Hoping for a ‘happy issue’[?] to tomorrow’s debate. Ever Sincerely Yours, J.C. Horsely”
- Additional Notes:
- On mourning stationary
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (4 pages) : 1 autograph letter, signed ; 17.5 x 22 cm folded to 17.5 x 11 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtistsEtchersPaintersPaintingWomen painters
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865Etching Club (London, England)Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909Gilbert, John, 1817-1897Goodall, Edward A.Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894Holl, Francis, 1815-1884Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880Linnell, WilliamMaclise, Daniel, 1806-1870Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888Richmond, George, 1809-1896Roberts, David, 1796-1864Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877Stanfield, George ClarksonStreet, George Edmund, 1824-1881Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
- Finding Aid Title:
- Letters to Richard Redgrave
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450044
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450044?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1