| Description | Volume III contains correspondence from G. F. Watts to Charles Hilditch Rickards, Manchester papermaker and benefactor and principal patron of Watts.
Correspondence includes specific paintings by Watts; making money from the sale of art; Watts' adopted daughter Blanche Clogstoun; review of Manchester exhibition; exhibition at the Manchester Institution; Rickards' eye condition; Watts' new studio at Little Holland House; sending works to the Royal Academy; the hanging of paintings; Watts' painting for the Manchester Town Hall; Manchester Grammar School; the death of Mrs Nassau Senior; exhibitions at the Grosvenor Gallery and the Royal Academy; critic's reviews; sending works to Manchester; Watts' painting practices; Miss Mary Gertrude Mead and Watts' exhibition in America.
Material is catalogued following the order of bound letters in volume, which are numbered in a running order, awarded prior to the dismantlement of the collection. Items sold in separate lots not bought by the National Portrait Gallery may be held at other institutions or in private collections. |