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Call Number:
MSS 22
Creator:
O'Neil, Henry, 1817-1880
Title(s):
Henry O'Neil letter to Richard Redgrave
Date:
1871
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 2, folder 90
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:
Marked private. O'Neil reminds Redgrave of his recommendation last year that O'Neil be in charge of the hanging for the International Exhibition. O'Neil thinks his advice should stand for this year as well and that it is better for him to take personal responsibility rather than the decision be made by a collective. O'Neil worries that he has seen "bad works exalted" and "good works blasted." O'Neil adds that he wants to go to Scotland at the end of May, hoping that the responsibilities will be finished by then. In a postscript, O'Neil adds" To mention one instance - Of two heads in water colour - by the same student - Hart fixed on the worst - appealing to the expression of the eyes- which were in mild frenzy[?] form - bad at the best - The one I liked was a really artistic work thoughtful- but no fine eyes. I strive to look for performance - and then progress as to age - I feel sure that [...] is done to the encouragement of the moderately advance and no to the leniency towards beginners - I would ever help the latter - for their [...] must reap good whatever their position."
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18.5 x 23 cm folded to 18.5 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
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450128
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450128?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1