| Description | Volume IV is largely made up of correspondence relating to commissioned art work and portraiture.
Correspondence with Charles Hilditch Rickards regarding patronage; with Duke of Westminster regarding commissioned work 'Hugh Lupus'; with Lord Fortescue regarding a monument for Lord Holland; with Charles Newton regarding the British Museum and Watts' fresco at Lincoln's Inn; with Cecil Rhodes regarding portrait sitting; with George Meredith; with the Marquess and Lady Lothian; with Lord Salisbury regarding portrait sitting; with T. H. Huxley regarding portrait sitting; with Richard Doyle regarding the copying of Watts' work and illustrations; with Barnett Samuel Marks regarding an artist's career in London; with William Graham regarding Watts' exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery and Watts' opinion of lending art outside of the country; with Sergius Stepniak regarding a visit; with Robert Browning; with Julia Margaret Cameron regarding her wish for Watts to paint Henry Taylor; with Charles Haddon Spurgeon regarding portrait sitting; with John Stuart Mill regarding portrait sitting; with Frederick Temple regarding portrait sitting; with Eugene Bracht regarding a poem written for Watts; with Arthur Penrhyn Stanley regarding capes; with John Tyndall regarding portrait sitting; with William Edward Lecky regarding portrait sitting and a memorial of Thomas Carlyle; with Rose Barnett regarding Ellice Hopkins's account of a visit to Freshwater; with Jane Ellice Hopkins sending Watts a poem.
Material is made up of bound and loose letters arranged in intellectual order referring to the running order of letter numbers, awarded prior to the collection's dismantlement. Items sold in separate lots not bought by the National Portrait Gallery may be held at other institutions or in private collections. |