NPG P215 (2a/2b/2c)
| Selected Letters | Letter from G.F. Watts to J.M. Cameron, undated, assessing her recent photographs. |
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My
Dear Mrs Cameron
All the Photographs are very fine as suggestions but hardly so definite as you must make them. I know you don't like me to say this but I must tell you what I think if you ask my opinion. The Mary of Bethuny is a beautiful picture but the only clear part about it is the throat & that is not enough. The expression is fine but it is always so when Mary Madonna sits & you have had that view of head & identical expression |
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over
& over again, for the purposes of sale repetition will not
do. Both the large ones have great nobility & charming sentiment
but the figure of the boy is too straight (illegible) as you
have had it before.
I have been making a design for an Evangelist & having a model with drapery on Monday. I spent some hours in trying to get an arrangement of folds that would make a beautiful & suggestive composition, it was a great deal of time occupied but not wasted, that is the sort of thing I want you to do, you would make fewer photographs but each one would be more valuable, I think I like the |
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head of Henry best of all
you sent. I have ordered (illegible) & sent back your boards
which ought to have been done long ago, it is very difficult
for to (illegible) this time out of my work
Your's most sincerely
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