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.