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Watts requests a canvas with a medium distemper as he painted pictures in Italy in distemper which 'are still perfectly sound though they have no particular care bestowed upon them and I speak of 1846'; Watts writes that he wishes to paint large scale paintings, noting that the scenes painted for theatres are permanent and suffer 'a good deal of knocking about'; Watts writes that he still paints with stiff colours although they 'do not lend themselves to rapid work'. |