Fredr. Leighton, 2 Holland Park road, Kensington, W., to Clausen

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

CL/1/132

Title

Fredr. Leighton, 2 Holland Park road, Kensington, W., to Clausen

Date

3 May 1894

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He is "frightfully" busy. He was really only trying his luck [in asking for a sketch of Turning the Plough]. Since missing his opportunity with the little sketch of the white horse he has been determined to get something of the character from Clausen. He is conscious of the ""vexations" a commission may bring to an artist, he never accepts any. Long ago he commissioned "two of the biggest artists" and will never see it fulfilled.