[John Gibson], to Lady Harriet [St Clair]

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

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Reference code

GI/1/303

Title

[John Gibson], to Lady Harriet [St Clair]

Date

c. 1863

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Draft letter to reply to St Clair's [GI/1/302], in which Gibson declares she would always be remembered by him. He commends her progress in modelling, writing that there were very few who practised that "noble art with love and ardent passion". Money making was the chief object of the majority: in the pusuit of his art, Gibson always felt his "soul rising above the crowd". Gibson would enquire after St Clair at her hotel when he was in London. He asks her to inform Lord and Lady Clifden that he hoped to have the bust [of Lilah Clifden] finished by the end of the following month.