| Description | Typescript copy of letter.
Watts writes that the colours sent to him by Taylor are excellent, writing 'there is nothing more to be desired excepting a softer ground preparation for the canvas'; Watts queries if the Hon. Neville Lytton, brother the the Earl of Lytton, has been to Rathbone Place, as Watts writes that he was 'struck by the effect of colour'; Watts writes that the soft ground and coarsely ground colours enable him to get the 'broad liquid touch of Tintoretti without the smear so disagreeable in modern work. A quality resembling a charchol drawing, Reynolds got it by the employment of wax, most unsafe as his pictures show'; Watts asks if Taylor knows anything about the 'Tempera-Farbe (Hease and Brandt?)' as Watts hears they are greatly used now; Watts writes of his use of tempera in Italy. |